In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice are having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers ...

Genomic analysis reveals squid and cuttlefish evolved in deep oceans, survived mass extinction in refuges, and later rapidly diversified, following a “long fuse” evolutionary pattern.

Scientists discover the first fossil egg of a mammal ancestor, offering new clues to how Lystrosaurus survived extreme ...

Check out the Gameplay Trailer for D-Extinction, a first-person stealth dinosaur survival horror game developed by Event ...

A beloved Massachusetts candy bar was heading for extinction eight years ago. Now there's a bill that wants to designate it ...

Explore the dramatic history of our planet's five major extinction events and learn how these natural disasters have fundamentally shaped the evolution of life as we know it today.

The Trump administration is facing a lawsuit over its decision to exempt oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of America from the ...

A remarkable new discovery is shedding light on one of the greatest survival stories in Earth's history, and answering a ...

The climate change crisis is pushing emperor penguins towards the life-threatening danger of extinction. According to the ...

The mass drowning of emperor penguin chicks, after melting sea ice caused by the climate crisis, has prompted the ...

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including ...