The road turned through a barren landscape, where under the glare of a full moon, the earth churned in a rocky, craggy mass. Down and down, the land flattened, and that lunar face, grease-paint ...

Cooperating with fungi didn't just help the earliest plants spread across a barren, rocky landscape; it also played a decisive role in the rise of more complex plants with roots and leaves that ...

Not only did they find lots of guano (penguin excrement), but they also discovered a barren, rocky landscape peppered with bones and carcasses.

Later, the foursome ride across the barren rocky landscape on horseback, an image out of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. All of this is great stuff.

See how life made the leap to land, transforming a barren, rocky landscape into the lush, green world we call home.

Salt and other minerals coating the landscape give Death Valley a perennial winter wonderland quality. Despite its barren landscape, Death Valley isn’t devoid of life.

NASA Curiosity rover sends back haunting images of Mars’ barren, rocky landscape as it searches for signs of life in the Red Planet's 96 mile-wide Gale Crater ...

So how did life make the leap to land? Scientists explore how some of the earliest life emerged and invaded a barren, rocky landscape, eventually transforming it into a verdant, green world.

This watercolor, done in 1896 by artist Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott, depicts a barren rocky outcropping on Monhegan Island. Born in England in 1846, Triscott received formal training at the Royal ...