麻豆传媒

Earth

Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

Earth鈥檚 air suddenly got a lot more oxygen around 1.6 billion years ago and that could have triggered the evolution of large multicellular organisms

Earth

Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

Environment

Dinobird Archaeopteryx only flew in short bursts like a pheasant

Reconstruction of Cheddar Man's head and shoulders

Humans

Ancient ‘dark-skinned’ Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true

Environment

Young ‘dinosauromorphs’ may have begged for food like baby birds

Ella Al-Shamahi

Humans

The fossil finder who can’t wait to return to war-torn Yemen

Life

Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time

Environment

This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

Dimetrodon

Life

We鈥檝e drawn iconic sail-wearing Dimetrodon wrong for 100 years

Berger 1

Humans

The fossil finder extraordinaire who’s rewriting human evolution

Lee Berger鈥檚 stunning discoveries of huge caches of ancient bones are overturning ideas about our origins, but not everyone likes his methods

Environment

Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved

Environment

What the first flower on Earth might have looked like

Environment

Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa

Life

The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson’s