By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...

The mass mortality event of monarch butterflies in California yet again shows how pesticides threaten pollinators and ...

The oceans have always been alive with mystery, beauty, and change. For the first time, scientists have measured how much ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

There are more ways than we knew for the stratospheric polar vortex to get disrupted, shooting cold air southwards across ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many technical and ethical hurdles, what is the real motivation?

Is bringing a species back from extinction truly possible, or are we simply creating something new in its image? As headlines ...

Colossal Biosciences has announced that it is aiming to bring back one of the nine flightless birds wiped out after humans arrived in New Zealand.

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

The huge climate changes back then occurred during the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction – sometimes referred to as the "Great Dying," which happened around 252 million years ago, leading to ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that ...