A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.
Fungi arose long before plants, shaping Earth with early soils and nutrient cycles. Their hidden legacy shows they may have ...
New research shows fungi diversified nearly a billion years ago, shaping soils and ecosystems long before plants colonized ...
The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...
The finding suggests that the earliest animals were soft-bodied, ocean-dwelling organisms, challenging previous assumptions about when and how animal life began on our planet.Tracing Earth’s first ...
Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...