Millions of years ago, continental collisions created enormous mountains in what's now Antarctica. As they eroded, Earth's ...

Analyses of detrital zircons from Antarctica show that its tectonics were dominated by Himalayan-style mountains ...

Long before Antarctica froze over, parts of the continent may have risen into mountains on the scale of the Himalayas. Sure, ...

For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ago when a remarkable diversity of animal life appeared in the fossil record.

A newly discovered trove of fossils in southwestern China is shifting the timeline of when complex animals evolved. The diversity and complexity of animal life is thought to have increased rapidly ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...

In the first 20 million years of the Cambrian period, Earth experienced an explosion of life—a great evolutionary era dubbed the Cambrian Explosion. Scientists have differing views on what drove this ...

As all children learn, everyone poos. But when did this begin? And what evolutionary and environmental changes accompanied the dawn of dung? Going further, is the evolution of excrement the reason we ...

The creation of life is a beautiful, sacred act; a great power no one should wield irresponsibly. That said, according to new research published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, complex life on Earth ...

As well as technically promoting it to the status of a “supercontinent”, the findings suggest the atmospheric upheaval sparked by its unification and separation could have set the stage for life on ...