Fifty thousand years ago, North America's landscapes were alive with an astonishing array of enormous creatures. Massive ...

The Cambrian explosion, long hailed as one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth, has now been ...

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 Earth re ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Combined with a $30 million debut in North America, the film has earned $60 million worldwide to start. Top territories are the United Kingdom ($6.4 million), Mexico ($2.7 million), Australia ($1. ...

HAGERMAN – The National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service invite members of the public to learn about plants that are native to southern Idaho, and their connection to plants that ...

Euparkeria capensis, a small, 60 cm long reptile from the early Triassic periode (245 – 237 million years ago). Credit: Taenadoman, 2011 First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the ...

A container of bones at the Natural History Museum of Utah that sat in storage for 20 years has now led to the discovery of an extinct “monster,” in the latest reminder that museum collections ...

Mukhopadhyay’s research suggests that a shift in the Earth’s magnetic poles around 41,000 years ago, known as the Laschamp event, may have contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals.

Reef-dwelling fish acquire biofluorescence about ten times faster than species that stay in open water. After the mass extinction 66 million years ago, when dinosaurs vanished and reefs rebounded, ...