The first life emerged about four billion years ago, when the planet was still new. Back then, the cutting edge of earthly ...

The Red Sea became a desert about 6.2 million years ago, before a massive flood from the Indian Ocean turned it into a ...

A new study reveals that the Red Sea completely evaporated and then returned to full capacity approximately 6.2 million years ...

A massive change happened in the Red Sea when a catastrophic flood from the Indian Ocean brought water to its dry seabed, ...

Ancient ocean grains show Earth’s carbon levels were far lower than expected during key evolutionary eras. The results challenge old theories of life’s rise and hint at patterns that could shape our ...

Can we turn to the past to learn more about how interactions between plants and pollinators changed during climate change? This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...

Discovered: Massive volcanoes caused widespread extinction 200 million years ago; men don't want to cheat with the wives of their friends; obese people share an altered gene; we remember things using ...

Current conditions in Japanese hot springs give clues as to how some of these ancient microorganisms survived and adapted.

Eventually, the sea lost so much water that it ceased to exist. This was likely to have been linked with the Messinian ...