Earth’s history is marked by periods of immense destruction, where vast numbers of species vanished in a short time. These ...

Biodiversity is declining across the planet, but what about in Wisconsin, how do we measure it, and how can we stop it?

A Cretaceous-era skull found on Vega Island, Antarctica, has been confirmed as a member of the same order as ducks and geese, ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...

The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which ...

It's too late for incremental industry shifts or policy tweaks to dial down the focus and intensity of protests,' says ...

Sea turtle populations are rising thanks to conservation efforts, but climate change and habitat loss still threaten their ...

CELINA - Though dinosaurs are the most notable of the prehistoric animals, smaller mammals and fish walked and swam in Ohio, ...

Land conversion is contributing to what scientists call Earth’s sixth mass extinction ... for sourcing the goods we use every day. For example, clearing a hectare of forest in the Congo Basin ...

Mass extinctions are very important to how life evolved on Earth. For example, when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, the resulting dinosaur extinction led mammals to... Researchers ...

“One prime example is the case of athletes that might present with being classified as being overweight or obese due to the weight of muscle mass,” says Brown. Alternatively, an individual labeled ...