New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological ...

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

The Wisconsin site is famed for its preservation of ancient soft-bodied organisms like leeches—leading Kenneth Gass, a ...

Ants can get into your house through small gaps and cracks, but there are many natural and conventional ways to get rid of them.

Explore Earth's highest and lowest points—from Mount Everest and the Dead Sea to Challenger Deep. Discover how these extremes ...

Experts think they may have uncovered what the first ever animal on Earth looked like after ancient chemical signals were ...

Tucked away on Maryland’s western shore, Flag Ponds Nature Park unfolds like a chapter from a storybook—545 acres where forests whisper secrets, beaches sparkle with hidden treasures, and the ...

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

There’s a secret slice of shoreline in Southern Maryland where time slows down and the modern world feels delightfully distant—Flag Ponds Nature Park in Lusby offers 545 acres of natural splendor that ...

There, researchers study and catalogue skins, bones, plant matter, fossils and rocks that make up the flora, fauna and geology of the country – and the Northwest Territories – collected ...