Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extreme stress in times of ...

This tiny frog carried a deadly fungal pathogen that silently spread across forests and rivers worldwide, infecting amphibians on multiple continents and helping trigger one of the largest wildlife ...

Some of the most beautiful creatures to grace the ancient seas, the ammonites, disappeared in the end-Cretaceous mass ...

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

For 350 million years, ammonites were the resilient masterpieces of the ancient seas. They survived the Great Dying of the ...

Earth's food webs suffer when giant animals go extinct, even 10,000 years later.

A new UC Davis-led study projects that 7% to 16% of global plant species could lose over 90% of their range by 2100 due to climate-driven habitat loss, even if they shift ranges. Researchers say ...

Exciting news on the extinction front emerged last week from Indonesia: An orangutan used a rope bridge strung high between ...

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