One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 million years ago, when the first animals made their way from water onto land. At that time, known as the Devonian ...

Their land-dwelling ancestors lived about 50 million years ago. Meet Pakicetus, a goat-sized, four-legged creature that scientists recognise as one of the first cetaceans (the group of marine animals ...

Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ... Fungi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning them ...