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

Feb. 14, 2025 — Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study, revealing new details about mumification ...

Find out what was going on in the oceans while dinosaurs dominated the land in the Fossil Marine Reptiles gallery. See some of the most complete fossils of these prehistoric sea animals, including ...

This suggests that eukaryotic cells originated only once ... This pattern of apparently singular origins could arise from information loss due to extinction and the incompleteness of the fossil record ...

Michael M. Desai, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Physics, hopes to leverage the common fungus to ...

Scientists challenge the idea that intelligent life is rare. They argue that evolution follows planetary changes, not random ...

But there are many organisms in the sample as well as snow-algae, other eukaryotic algae, bacteria and fungi. What is commonly done is to incubate the whole community. You give them a nutrient and ...