A mass extinction event is no longer a distant possibility, it’s already underway. Scientists warn that species are disappearing at rates up to 1,000 times faster than normal, with over a million now ...

With Week 0 of the college football season complete, Week 1 kicks off Thursday, with the first Pac-12 team playing Friday. With the new-look Pac-12 entering its first season as an eight-team ...

A population boom in New Zealand's endangered flightless kakapo parrot demonstrates how species can claw their way back from the brink.

Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival, Jennings Landing, Corning Preserve, Albany. Noon-8 p.m. Saturday. Free. 518-434-2032 or ...

The Pac-12 is back. More than four years after a mass exodus threatened the future of the conference, the Pac-12 returns to ...

A scientist has warned that a 'perfect storm' of climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss could drive humanity toward ...

Shakajlura riojanensis, a newly discovered Triassic apex predator, ruled the land millions of years before the rise of giant dinosaurs. Emerging from the ashes of the planet’s worst mass extinction, ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet’s biggest mass extinction while most animals did not. About 252 million years ago, 96% of marine ...

An interdisciplinary team from Florida State University's Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science has uncovered new evidence about processes that may have contributed to ancient ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the "sixth mass extinction"—the first to be caused by human activities. Five earlier mass extinctions, caused by dramatic but ...