Rather than a constant upward trajectory of evolution, it’s been billions of years of boom-and-bust cycles – first an explosion of life, and then a mass extinction of all but the most hardy hangers-on ...

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

Beneath the bogs of New Zealand’s Northland is a massive Ngāwhā kauri, living from 41,000 to 42,500 years ago, which gives an isolated, unbroken record of a period when Earth’s magnetic field declined ...