That's because these biographers of the primordial deal in increments of millions and even billions of years as they struggle to reconstruct our planet's life history, which is so vast that those ...

By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists ...

The history of life on our planet is a long and winding path. Much of what we know about how life has evolved comes from fossils. The physical remains of organisms and the evidence of behaviors, such ...

To explain the remarkable diversity of life histories among species we must understand how evolution shapes organisms to optimize their reproductive success. The principal aim of life history ...

The $488 million (£377 million) telescope will help us "answer fundamental questions", said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Nasa's acting head of astrophysics. "How does the universe work ...

The “hard steps” theory had suggested that life was probably rare: it would need a whole host of things to go right to begin. “This is a significant shift in how we think about the history ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

How is it that whole groups of animals have simultaneously died out? Paleontologists are returning to an earlier answer: natural catastrophe. The catastrophes they visualize, however, are not ...

A second section of the plaque was donated by Beta Theta Pi and includes the famous anonymously authored quote and unofficial motto of Miami: “To think that in such a place, I led such a life.

An accused thief is behind bars after being charged with a half dozen thefts in and around Indy's north side. Stealing tools at a Lowe's on Shadeland, heaters at a second Lowe's on Rural, video ...