Tropical ecosystems rely on the infrastructure provided by termites. These insects supply plants with vital nutrients by ...

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...

Mass extinction events are defined by a 75% loss in total species. These events can take tens of thousands to several million years. Experts are alarmed at today’s “unprecedented” population abundance ...

Should scientists intervene when faced with the possible self-destruction of a species? That question sits at the heart of ...

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

Over 200,000 years, a single species spread from a small corner of Africa to dominate every ecosystem on Earth, driving ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s history ...

Ancient lycophytes may have survived extreme heat during Earth’s worst extinction using a rare photosynthesis method.

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

Steve Brusatte, an evolutionary biologist who specializes in dinosaur anatomy and evolution, gave a lecture on the rise and fall of dinosaurs in Kane Hall on April 24. Presenting to a room of all ages ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, ...