The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Roughly 2.5 million years ago, a nearby star exploded. Around the same time, the diversity of viruses infecting fish in Africa’s Lake Tanganyika rose dramatically. Three researchers from the ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

Dear EarthTalk: Are any plants and animals evolving backward by incorporating traits that they lost long ago? -- Joseph R., ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In "One Hand Clapping," Nikolay Kukushkin traces the origin of human consciousness from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million years ...

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 ...

A new study has found that nearly half of the body traits identified across mollusks – a group that includes snails, clams, ...

Astrophysicists have done a bit of crime scene investigation on what’s almost a reverse murder mystery. They’ve traced radioactive elements on the seafloor back to the cosmic explosions they might ...