Polar bears are running out of ice and out of time, yet inside their cells something remarkable is happening. As the Arctic ...

For more than a century, dinosaur eggs have offered haunting snapshots of ancient life, from curled embryos to trampled nests ...

A large fossil study shows young shark and ray species vanish faster, while older species stay stable over time.

At the University of Arizona, a new lab is giving scientists the tools to predict the future of life on Earth. The Data ...

Known to science as Iguana delicatissima (as in Latin for “most delicate”, not delicatessen, you hungry hungry humans), ...

Association of paleopalynological data from the Nanxiong Basin, south China, and late Paleocene niche expansion in endemic Asian fossil mammals.

The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, ...

A recent climate study from the University of Wollongong suggests that Homo floresiensis, the small early human species from ...

New research shows that losing threatened requiem shark species could erase millions of years of tooth evolution and squeeze ...

66 million years ago, an asteroid of similar size to Mount Everest collided with Earth with the power of 10 billion atomic bombs. Not long after, on a geologic timescale, nearly 75% of all animals ...

Giants once roamed the karst plains of southern China, three-meter-tall apes weighing in at 550 pounds (250 kilograms). These very distant human ancestors - Gigantopithcus blacki - went extinct before ...