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

New technology has helped a team of scientists uncover more than 20 microscopic fossils, including a species previously ...

A 250-million-year-old fossil from Africa reveals that early mammal ancestors laid eggs, offering insight into their survival ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The species in question was a therapsid, a group of animals that was the forefather to modern-day mammals, including humans.

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