Black holes played a critical role in the formation of the early universe. However, astronomers have been debating for a long ...

Gene-edited animals or plants wouldn’t have a chance if released into a barren habitat or a poaching hotspot. Genomic tools ...

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

Ultimately, the extinction of humans "would reveal something about the way we treated the Earth," said Basmajian. "It would ...

By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...

Without sharks, ocean ecosystems would become unbalanced, leading to overpopulation of some species and the collapse of ...

When John Muir founded the Sierra Club in 1892, he couldn’t have imagined the world we live in now — one where millions of ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the University of Birmingham has discovered that a rapid acidification of oceans, ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a Texas ...

Fifty thousand years ago, North America's landscapes were alive with an astonishing array of enormous creatures. Massive woolly mammoths roamed vast icy plains, while dense forests echoed with the ...

The huge climate changes back then occurred during the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction – sometimes referred to as the "Great Dying," which happened around 252 million years ago, leading to ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that ...