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 ...
A mass extinction event is no longer a distant possibility, it’s already underway. Scientists warn that species are disappearing at rates up to 1,000 times faster than normal, with over a million now ...
A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to federal prison for trafficking into the country more than 100 animal parts from ...
Imagine a crocodile that would rather sprint than swim. It dashes over dry ground on long, slender legs like a reptilian ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Learn how a new genomic study reveals that squid and cuttlefish survived a mass extinction in deep-sea refuges before rapidly ...
A 230-million-year-old fossilized beetle has been discovered in China that could rewrite the history of its evolution.
The nearly complete skull was found in 2001 in the Méndez Formation in Nuevo León, northeastern Mexico, dozens of kilometers ...
The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...