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 ...

Bedouin families uprooted by Israeli settlers describe a state-backed project of forced transfer in the West Bank.

An ancient crater beneath Ames, Oklahoma, is now believed to be nearly 100 million years younger than previously thought, potentially linking it to a major mass extinction event.

Before life began on this planet nearly four billion years ago, the closest thing to any form of life we would recognize was a variety of molecules bouncing around, occasionally interacting with each ...

The dodo is often remembered as a clumsy, unintelligent bird that was doomed to extinction, but the evidence tells a ...

The Ames impact crater formed about 370 million years ago during the Late Devonian, not 470 million years ago, as previously ...

China’s electric car market is overcrowded with 129 brands but only a handful are expected to survive the next few years.

Small, hairy and cheekily charismatic. Author Michelle Campbell-Ward Associate Professor, Wildlife and Avian Medicine, University of Sydney Those ...

Ames crater under Oklahoma has been shown to be nearly 100 million years younger than thought, and is now dated at 370 ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth experienced the largest mass extinction described in the file: the Great Dying. About 90% of marine life and 70% of animal and plant life disappeared. Scientists in ...

New radioisotopic constraints and implications for North American impact chronology’, new evidence points to a very different timeline. By dating zircon from impact-melted granite, researchers may ...

A meteor impact buried beneath the small town of Ames, Oklahoma, has been given a dramatically different age. For years, the ...