A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a ...

A recent study from researchers at the University of Toulouse has revealed a fascinating insight into the origins of life on land. The study, published in Science, highlights how a gene transfer ...

What came first — the plant or the seed? Columnist Carol Barany explores how plants made the leap from water to land, why ...

New research has revealed that a massive meteorite struck northwestern Scotland about 200 million years later than previously thought, in a discovery that not only rewrites Scotland's geological ...

The study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, shows that early interactions between fungi and algae may have played a key role in the spread of life across the continents "As a group, fungi are ...

Forests cover nearly 31 per cent of the world and are home to more than 80 per cent of all terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects. Unfortunately, the world is facing a triple crisis of ...

Daily briefing: Fossil tracks might be earliest evidence of fish testing life on land Some of the earliest fin-steps of fish on land, a human embryo finds its home in the uterus and the green goo that ...