Holtz led his first Arkansas team to an 11-1 record in 1977, capped by a 31-6 rout of No. 2 Oklahoma at the Orange Bowl. He won the national championship with a 12-0 record during the 1988 season at ...

A new miniseries, narrated by Morgan Freeman, combines recent fossil research with cinematic reconstruction.

Our single-celled ancestor lived in a world without plants, animals or oxygen-rich oceans. Yet, this seemingly simple microorganism took the first steps toward complex life. From this ancestor emerged ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

In geological layers around the world (particularly in the southwestern U.S.) roughly one billion years of rock are missing—a mystery known as the “Great Unconformity." ...

A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

What did the face of our ancestors looks like 3 million years ago? Meet the reconstructed skull of “Little Foot” which ...

Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision could actually see.