Microbes frozen for 40,000 years in Alaska's permafrost are thawing as temperatures rise, releasing CO2 and posing new ...

Ancient peat bogs show that past shifts in the Southern Westerly Winds transformed carbon storage on Earth. Scientists say ...

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

D imaging reveals ancient phages virus with features dating back billions of years - and potential to fight today’s dangerous ...

The Ediacaran Period of Earth’s past was poorly understood, and the enigmatic fluctuations and magnetism could have been recorded in rocks.

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

In an incredible discovery, scientists have uncovered what they believe is the oldest animal ever found on Earth. Known as ...

Scientists have revealed that ancient bogs in the Southern Hemisphere hold clues to a major shift in Earth's climate ...

A new study uncovered fresh chemical evidence of life in rocks more than 3.3 billion years old, along with molecular traces showing that oxygen-producing photosynthesis emerged nearly a billion years ...

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites. One hypothesis has been that our proto-Earth (what the earliest stages of ...

A deep dive into animal influencer Lindsay Nikole's first book 'Epic Earth' all about the history of ancient Earth.