Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago.

Despite its small size, this humble plant harbors a genetic mechanism that appears to have been critical for the early evolution of land plants. The gene, called MpARF2, acts as a master regulator of ...

Dolphins developed streamlined bodies and other adaptations when they transitioned from land to water 50 million years ago. Credit: Pexels.com.

Tyrannoroter heberti fossil shows one of the earliest land animals to eat plants, changing what we know about how ...

More than 300 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur let out a roar, a small, four-legged creature was busy ...

TORONTO, ON – Evolutionary plant biologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have identified a protein that evolved approximately 500 million years ago, enabling plants to convert light into ...