Fungi arose long before plants, shaping Earth with early soils and nutrient cycles. Their hidden legacy shows they may have ...

A stunning fossil discovery in the Grand Canyon has opened a new window into one of the most fascinating chapters in Earth’s ...

New research shows fungi diversified nearly a billion years ago, shaping soils and ecosystems long before plants colonized ...

Chemical fossils from 635-million-year-old rocks suggest sponges were among Earth’s first animals, reshaping the story of early life.

New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding ...

Before the first trees sprouted on Earth, the planet’s barren landscape may already have been transformed by fungi.

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom have found algae-like fossils in meteorite fragments that landed in Sri Lanka last year. This is the strongest evidence yet of cometary panspermia -- that life on ...

A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first ...

New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding ...