When bird populations decline, it usually signals larger ecological problems affecting insects, plants, water quality, and ...

Earth has experienced five mass extinctions throughout its history, with the most famous being the Chicxulub asteroid that ...

Have you ever heard someone say that we are currently in a sixth mass extinction? A mass extinction occurs when the world’s ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the extraordinary evolutionary traits and survival strategies that allowed resilient organisms to ...

Shakajlura riojanensis, a newly discovered Triassic apex predator, ruled the land millions of years before the rise of giant dinosaurs.

A hidden process deep beneath Earth’s surface may have played a powerful role in some of the most dramatic climate swings in ...

Nijin-Konai is built around a brutal evolutionary cycle in which intense solar radiation causes mass extinctions roughly every 50 million years. Its thin ozone layer leaves the planet vulnerable, yet ...

(Dawid Adam Iurino/PaleoFactory/Sapienza University of Rome) For the first 280 million years of animal life on Earth, slow-living creatures such as clam-like brachiopods and crinoid sea lilies ...

A rare fossil discovered near South America's largest known meteorite crater has been named a new species. Initially mistaken for a frog by locals, Leolepis matogrossensis is actually a species of ...

A new study from Purdue University is offering fresh insight into how the asteroid impact that ended the age of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Dawid Adam Iurino/PaleoFactory/Sapienza University of Rome) For the first 280 million years of animal life on Earth, slow-living ...