(Anton Petrus/Moment/Getty Images) Life on Earth, beginning with simple microorganisms that evolved and diversified into the ...

When bird populations decline, it usually signals larger ecological problems affecting insects, plants, water quality, and ...

On Wednesday, August 26, at 5:30 p.m., the Northeast Harbor Library will host marine geophysicist and international educator ...

Shakajlura riojanensis, a newly discovered Triassic apex predator, ruled the land millions of years before the rise of giant dinosaurs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 245 million-year-old fossil from China reveals how early reptiles adapted to the sea, preserving both skeleton and digestive ...

More than one million species are now at risk, and many scientists believe Earth has entered a sixth mass extinction. This ...

Three Species, One Crisis By the early 1970s, India had hunted and farmed its crocodilians to the edge of disappearance. The ...

Growth rings on a fossil bone suggest at least one mammal ancestor gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs 236 million years ago.

An international team of researchers from Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain and the U.S. has reconstructed the evolution of body mass in carnivorous mammals during the Paleogene—a crucial window in ...

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A giant aging star near the Milky Way’s central black hole is shedding enormous amounts of gas and dust, roughly an Earth’s ...