An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

"Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction ...

Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...

Let’s go to the MoneyShow Chart of the Day. It’s courtesy of one of my favorite technicians, Ryan Carson, chief market strategist at Carson Group. (Source: Ryan Detrick, Carson Group ...

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 ...

Coyne is professor emeritus of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago ... The premise of de-extinction is simple. We have the ability to sequence the genomes — to read off the ...

RAND takes big threats to humanity seriously, so I, skeptical about AI’s human extinction potential, proposed a project to research whether it could. If you're enjoying this article, consider ...

Shazam today announced the launch of its Viral Chart, which lists the fastest-growing songs of the week that were "discovered on screens and socials." "Shazam's new Viral Chart playlist doesn't ...

In this article, I’ll discuss an interesting conservation obstacle from the other side of the globe. Cancers, unlike other diseases, normally can’t be transferred from one individual to another.

The new research could upend what’s known of the evolution of the most primitive mammals alive today. Found in Australia and New Guinea, the platypus and echidna are called monotremes ...

These machines dig through huge piles of geological and climate data to trace how events unfolded during Earth's most famous extinction. “We flipped the usual approach,” said Alex Cox ...