Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.
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If we took the values and principles of cooperation to the next level, we could effectively tackle many crises.
Destruction of the Ukrainian dam unleashed a catastrophic flood—and surfaced centuries of cultural heritage. Now there’s a call not to rebuild it.
The way that the ancient Megalodon adapted to water temperature has important implications for modern marine creatures.
In the land of the double-blind, impartiality is king.
Predatory dinosaurs with big skulls tend to have tiny arms. Researchers propose there might be a direct link between those traits.
The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
The discovery suggests that the “Boring Billion” period of evolution on Earth wasn’t so boring after all.
Evolutionary game theory could tip the advantage to medicine.
Syllipsimopodi bideni is small (about 12cm in length), has ten arms, suckers, fins, and a triangular pen of hard tissue inside its body for support.
He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
A new method of mapping migration factors in erratic movements and changing climate.
Experts say it’s likely space junk—and there’s plenty more where that came from.
Parasites aren’t limited to just worms and ticks. Even some plants like to feed off others — and they perhaps could help fight invasive species.
The moths in your garden might hear your tomato plant’s pain.
“The more I unleash myself from the tethers of domestication, the happier I feel.”
Tusks suddenly became a liability, even though in natural circumstances, tusks are very useful.
Marburg virus, like its cousin Ebola, causes severe disease, with fatality rates ranging from 22% to 90%.
A new analysis of an ancient hominin fossil sheds light on the “Out of Africa” dispersal events that occurred more than one million years ago.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
Parity tasks (such as odd and even categorisation) are considered abstract and high-level numerical concepts in humans.
Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that’s 10 with 30 zeros after it.
Can a non-native species be a friend instead of a foe?
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.