5 fun facts about evolution The last common ancestor of all life on Earth is estimated to have existed around 4.2 billion years ago. There are three ingredients necessary for natural selection to ...

Save The Date (s): SciFri Book Club Events When the Earth Was Green: Livestream and Q&A with Riley Black Billions of years ago, plant life was abundant and diverse, and the evolution of animals was ...

Material from volcanoes where the Earth's plates squeeze together is more oxidized than in regions where the seafloor splits apart, a finding that helps shed light on some of the basic processes ...

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.

Excerpted from "Infinite Life: The Story of Eggs, Evolution, and Life on Earth" by Jules Howard. Published by Pegasus Books, Sept. 3,, 2024.

Scientists are, for example, sure that about 2.5 billion years ago, the evolution of a new kind of photosynthesis flooded Earth’s atmosphere and oceans with oxygen.

It is why life takes "such endless forms most beautiful and wonderful," as British biologist Charles Darwin wrote in his famous 1859 book " On the Origin of Species." You can thank evolution for ...