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

The little skeleton was curled so tightly it looked as if it had never really entered the world. For years, that mattered ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

Human societies didn’t just adapt to the planet—they learned to reshape it. From early fire use to today’s global supply ...

Researchers identified an early mammal ancestor whose eggs may have helped it survive the Great Dying 250 million years ago.

Discovery of a Lystrosaurus embryo inside an egg proves early mammal relatives laid eggs and survived mass extinction through ...

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

A remarkable discovery answers one of the greatest survival stories in Earth’s history—and a decades-old scientific mystery.

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 ...

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

A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by ...

Stewart Copeland, best known as the drummer with The Police, teamed up with naturalist Martyn Stewart for "Wild Concerto." ...