While NASA rovers on the surface of Mars look for hints of life, researchers back on Earth are studying ‘echoes of life’ from ancient basins – hoping that the two sites might be similar.

Impress your niece or nephew with these T rex facts.

New laboratory experiments add analytical rigour to the search for ancient biomolecules

The fossil record tells conflicting stories about what happened to flowering plants after the asteroid.

Reptiles don’t generally care for their offspring, but some pterosaurs may have bucked the trend.

New research shows that placental mammals survived the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs.

The arrangement of leaves on most plants follows a mathematical pattern – new research sheds light on how it evolved.

Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few theories based on the microbes, viruses and prions existing today.