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

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 ...

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

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including humans: the therapsids. They were first described more than 150 years ago, ...

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

Check out the Gameplay Trailer for D-Extinction, a first-person stealth dinosaur survival horror game developed by Event ...

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

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

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of Life on Earth. Vertebrate groups that dominated at the time, such as dinosaurs and ...