An endangered shark species is seeing a population boom near New England beaches. The dusky shark, a species that was once hunted near extinction, is now surging, with sightings off the Massachusetts ...

In the wake of the catastrophic Chicxulub asteroid impact roughly 66 million years ago, three-quarters of the plant and ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

Sometimes, tropical cyclones cause animals to evolve to survive storms more easily, and sometimes they lead to mass migration or extinction. Mention hurricane and images of devastation usually fill ...

Innovative systems to keep ships from hitting North Atlantic right whales are coming into use. The Trump administration is weighing whether they can replace a bedrock protection.

Back around 1994, the apparently innocuous decision to treat arthritic cattle with a painkiller brought vultures in India to ...

Kerala Goodkin can't stop dreaming about remodeling her cramped, tile-countered kitchen, even as a 10-year-old calmly informs ...

Picking the wildest fantasy promoted by President Donald Trump as a basis for public policy is increasingly challenging — is ...

Residents in the Santa Cruz area are marveling at a rare influx of California tortoiseshell butterflies, calling the ...

After years of operating in relative darkness for a company of its size and ambitions, Elon Musk’s SpaceX finally pulled back ...

A South American glacier has been declared extinct due to factors including rising temperatures and decreasing snowfall.

The world my generation left you is a real mess,’ Ford says Speaking at Arizona State University’s commencement ceremony this ...