The sixth mass extinction isn’t a distant threat—it’s happening now. Species are vanishing at an alarming rate due to habitat ...

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature.

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

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs ... through the EOS-Excellence of Science program (project ET-HoME) and Hercules funding for the acquisition of ...

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

Using the Body Mass Index (BMI) to diagnose obesity should go the way of ... “Evolving health recommendations can be challenging for the average consumer, but it is important that science ...

The divergent patterns of Permian–Triassic mass extinction (PTME) have been extensively documented ... This study was jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.