Laura Poppick is a Maine-based science and environmental journalist whose stories have appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, National Geographic, and elsewhere. Her debut book, "Strata: ...

Also known as "angel hair", because of the silky threads the spiders leave behind, “spider rain” is in fact a mass ballooning ...

On the 50th anniversary of the iconic movie, IFLScience chats with activist Wendy Benchley (wife of Jaws author Peter ...

Based on the best-selling book by Peter Benchley, “Jaws” sparked a surge of interest in studying the ancient apex predator — ...

The extinction caused by the asteroid strike knocked down some thriving modes of life and opened the door for others to dominate the new landscape.

A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred approximately 252 million years ago, wiped out over 80% of marine species, and its impact on land has long been debated.

Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and triggered the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. Now, researchers have determined that the space rock ...

The researchers suggest cryptobiosis “could be one of the factors that have helped [tardigrades] evade extinction,” enduring dramatic shifts in climate, drops in oxygen and other extraordinary ...

Asteroid That Ended the Dinosaurs Came From Beyond Jupiter, Study Finds Metal isotopes delivered to Earth by the asteroid reveal it’s consistent with space rocks formed in the outer solar system ...

Tardigrades are survivors. For more than 500 million years, the microscopic “water bears” have spread all over the planet and endured some of the harshest conditions Earth has to offer. Now a ...