Exciting news on the extinction front emerged last week from Indonesia: An orangutan used a rope bridge strung high between trees by humans to cross above a public road. You might ...

Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

A forgotten dinosaur skull sat in storage for decades—until scientists rediscovered it and uncovered a new species that could change evolution.

Artificial intelligence might be driving growth for data centre companies, but society is unprepared for the long-term risks posed to the rest of us.

A distorted dinosaur skull, once dismissed as unusable, became the focus of a detailed digital reconstruction that revealed ...