From the beginning of time to the origins of life, our "when" special series tackles the timing of crucial events and the ...

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

The history of life on our planet is a long and winding path. Much of what we know about how life has evolved comes from fossils. The physical remains of organisms and the evidence of behaviors, such ...

What was Earth like billions of years ago? How did life emerge? And how did humanity come to dominate the planet? This video ...

To explain the remarkable diversity of life histories among species we must understand how evolution shapes organisms to optimize their reproductive success. The principal aim of life history ...

Incredibly, the story of how you are related to all of those species––and millions upon millions more that have gone extinct over the 3.5-billion-year history of life on Earth––can be ...

How is it that whole groups of animals have simultaneously died out? Paleontologists are returning to an earlier answer: natural catastrophe. The catastrophes they visualize, however, are not ...

The Pea Island Preservation Society, Inc., will present the special program PIPSI Past, Present and Future, at the College of the Albemarle – Dare on Saturday, February 22, 2025, at 3:00 ...