The Dodo, the passenger pigeon, the beaver, the Northern White Rhino, and countless other species were not wiped out by accident. The video argues that the sixth mass extinction is being driven by a ...

A rare fossil discovered near South America's largest known meteorite crater has been named a new species. Initially mistaken ...

Bird flu could decimate everything from pelicans and ibises to penguins and quolls, a horrifying risk analysis shows.

Byssal threads bind a colony of mussels together — they’re gregarious animals and often grow in dense clusters. That tendency ...

A new study from Purdue University is offering fresh insight into how the asteroid impact that ended the age of the ...

Dragonflies and damselflies have been flying across Earth for more than 200 million years. They appeared long before the ...

The world is not okay, yet Americans continue to ignore global problems. Is there hope for solving the biggest problems in ...

The bronze sculpture Angels Unawares by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz. (Credit Image: © Valeria Ferraro/SOPA Images via ...

Many people remember road trips back in the day that left windshields splattered with insects – and may get the uncomfortable feeling that things have changed. Here's what researchers are finding.

As pitched by Babak Hodjat, Cognizant’s Chief AI Officer, TerraLingua is a public research platform to allow agents to operate fully autonomously over a long stretch of time, so that anyone can ...

It struck the seas off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula with the force of billions of atomic bombs, carving out the 112-mile-wide Chicxulub crater. The asteroid vaporized almost instantly.

"The biggest mass extinction of all time started from a world that is very similar to today in having a relatively cool, ...