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

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

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

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 ...

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

Over 400 applicants from eight area high schools applied and 63 were selected to participate in the four-day Watershed ...

Fossil plankton reveal oceans shifted dramatically 200,000 years before Earth’s great warming, offering new warnings for today’s ecosystems.

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

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

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

A large proportion of the carbon dioxide emissions that are currently being released into the atmosphere by human activities ...