Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

The scientific wonderers at What If recreate the most devastating biological collapses in our planet's history to see how ...

Dinosaurs have been fearsome and fascinating — but tragic? Those prehistoric creatures who met their end around 65 million ...

Researchers have uncovered new evidence that short-lived spikes in ocean phosphorus may have played a major role in two of the most severe marine extinctions in Earth's history. Dr. Matthew Dodd from ...

Learn how a new genomic study reveals that squid and cuttlefish survived a mass extinction in deep-sea refuges before rapidly ...

Imagine a crocodile that would rather sprint than swim. It dashes over dry ground on long, slender legs like a reptilian ...

Our planet is no stranger to changes. Ever since the world was formed more than four billion years ago, it has seen a number of mass extinctions that have almost decimated life, not to mention the ...

The study — “The Southernmost Zalophus in the Western North Pacific: The First Pinniped (Carnivora, Pinnipedia) fossil from ...

Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, a new study from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) combines ...

A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to federal prison for trafficking into the country more than 100 animal parts from ...

“Mesozoic” means “middle life,” and this was the time of the dinosaurs. This era includes the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods — names that may be familiar to you. It ended with a massive ...