Virginia Tech’s study traces early eukaryotic evolution, highlighting life’s diversification since 2 billion years ago.

A new study published on December 18 in Nature offers a way to explain that 150-million-year gap. Computer modeling and ...

This ecosystem has potentially existed within the ice blister for 14 million years, which may have been when the lake first froze over at the end of a much warmer period of Earth. Lake Enigma was ...

Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 billion years ago. The ...

Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but ...

The moon may be more than 100 million years older than some scientists ... idea that the moon formed roughly 4.35 billion years ago, after a Mars-sized object smashed into the early Earth and created ...

But the new study suggests that the moon formed earlier — around 4.51 billion years ago — and then experienced ... the moon was moving away from the Earth, the authors say, when the planet ...

(CNN) – The moon may be 100 million years older than ... to have formed roughly 4.35 billion years ago after a Mars-sized object collided with Earth and created the moon. That timeline is ...