A new study has identified trace fossils of a large horseshoe crab species dating back more than 240 million years, from the shallow reaches of long-vanished waters in east China. These findings offer ...

University of Louisville AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy has put the chance of AI-driven human extinction within a century at 99.9 per cent, far above other estimates.

This undated photo provided by Xing Lida, a researcher from China University of Geosciences (Beijing), shows fossilized ...

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 ...

Colombia’s Santa Isabel glacier has lost 36% of its area since January 2025, with just 7 hectares of ice remaining.

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New uranium-lead dating of zircons from Oklahoma’s buried Ames impact structure points to a Late Devonian age near 370 ...

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

Humans tend to think of themselves as the most important beings on Earth.We have built civilizations, advanced science, and are attempting to venture into space.However, let's try changing our ...

Over 200,000 years, Homo sapiens spread from a small corner of Africa to every corner of the globe, leaving a trail of extinctions in their wake. Based on Elizabeth Kolbert's landmark book, this is ...

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 ...