A Cataclysm and Its Feathered Survivors About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into Earth. The devastation and climate upheaval it triggered are now counted among the chief drivers of ...

It’s believed prior to the 1800s there were 30 million to 60 million bison in the U.S., but then what’s known as the “the Great Slaughter” led the population to shatter to fewer than 1,000 by the ...

A study suggests that the Ames impact crater was created around 370 million years ago and not 467 million years ago, as ...

According to a recently published study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, researchers dated zircon crystals from the site ...

Amazon bird conservation mapping took a leap forward as a new Nature Communications study shows that airborne canopy ...

Protesters disrupt the Easter Vigil Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on March 30, 2024. / Credit: XR NYC ...

Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway ...

This is the largest study to date that combines the genomes and fossils of bats. Bats appeared after a mass extinction that led to ...

Long-duration gravitational microlensing events are a powerful gateway to selecting isolated stellar-mass black holes, but a ...

The Global Glacier Extinction Explorer is a new interactive website that predicts the future of glaciers across the world.

Many of Australia's unique freshwater fish species are edging closer to extinction, with new research warning that the nation ...

Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes throughout its history, but new research suggests those changes may not have been as random as ...