When bird populations decline, it usually signals larger ecological problems affecting insects, plants, water quality, and ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is on course to win the September 6th election with 41 per cent support in polls, ...

Why not plan a protest in a place where you’re guaranteed an audience? As our collective attention fractures and splinters, ...

A model of Microraptor being put on display at the American Museum of Natural History. Microraptor was one of the smallest known dinosaurs, weighing about one pound—roughly the size of a large rabbit.

Aurora and perseids seen at the beach of Norderney, Germany. The image is a composite of 64 individual exposures of meteors, one of these images was used as a background. The frames were taken in the ...

The Trump Administration finalized the rule to remove habitat protection for endangered species when development, mining or logging occur in that habitat. The ESA (Endangered Species Act) has ...

See Bill Joy’s article in “Wired” magazine, April 2000, titled “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” Joy talks about what he calls the 21st Century technologies of mass destruction (AI, nanotech, ...

A single neonatal growth line in a 236-million-year-old cynodont from Argentina overturns the assumed origin of live birth in the mammalian lineage by nearly 10 ...

Growth rings on a fossil bone suggest at least one mammal ancestor gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs 236 million years ago.

This letter is in response to Joseph Hardy’s op-ed of Aug. 2, in which he offers hope regarding climate change. The writer bases it on personal observations of vast arrays of wind farms in Wyoming and ...

Dinosaurs generally lorded it over mammals during the Mesozoic, but our tiny ancestors seem to have had them beat when it came to being small.

Shakajlura riojanensis, a newly discovered Triassic apex predator, ruled the land millions of years before the rise of giant dinosaurs.