Explore the history of life on Earth, from 3.5-billion-year-old fossils to the vast diversity of species on our planet today.

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A collaborative team of scientists has discovered that life on Earth over three billion years ago relied on the metal ...

Scientists have pushed back LUCA’s origin by hundreds of millions of years.

Chronicling the history of life and the planet’s evolution from single-celled organisms onward, the production wasn’t without ...

Earth's earliest continents may have set the chemical stage for life by regulating boron levels in ancient oceans, a new ...

Study reveals a Universal Thermal Performance Curve, UTPC, predicting how all life responds to heat, challenging evolution ...

Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a stable atmosphere. However, the conditions were not conducive to life when it formed. The gas-dust cloud from which ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Life on Earth was kick-started... by salt, according to new research. The mineral was key to early habitability as its ...

Life thrived on Earth far earlier than previously believed, flourishing under the harsh reign of the Hadean eon. LUCA—the last universal common ancestor—was even designed to fend off ancient viruses.

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe — life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like ...