Earth has a flair for dramatic resets, though it usually takes millions of years to deliver them. Over its long history, life has been knocked back by volcanic eruptions, climate swings, changing seas ...

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Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing.

Eukaryote fossils can be found around the world in rocks dating back at least 1.5 billion years. The fossils of the Northern ...

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The oldest eukaryotes we've found lived exclusively on the seafloor and already used oxygen. The discovery overturns certain long-held assumptions about the group while corroborating others.

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Get ready for a biology lesson. Certain plants have extra sets of chromosomes. And it turns out, it's a useful trait for a ...