A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Study by UChicago, Smithsonian, UK Natural History Museum challenges assumptions about survival after global catastrophe ...

Douglas McIntyre and David Callaway, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, discuss the alarming prediction that human ...

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

On a shrub-covered dune in San Francisco’s Presidio, biologist Durrell Kapan and a group of volunteers huddle around a tiny plastic condiment container placed delicately amid a cluster of ...

Knowing this, the researchers explored whether the evolution of specific traits in ... For example, we suggest that the extinction and turnover of corals, and other changes to the structure ...

Apart from this, there is evidence of a smaller extinction affecting the oceans around ... This was a critical event in the evolution of life on Earth and ultimately led to the evolution of ...

This is normally called the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event as it took place at the boundary between the two periods, which was 201.4 million years ago. Apart from this, there is evidence of a ...