Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of evolution’s most haunting survivors.

Described by one researcher as looking ‘already dead’, the enigmatic creatures are one of the least understood species on the planet ...

A study of the hearts of Greenland sharks has found that the long-lived deep-sea predator has massive accumulations of ageing ...

Sharks, ancient mariners predating trees and dinosaurs, have survived five mass extinctions through remarkable adaptability.

A powerful stream of lava carves its way across the dark earth, glowing with intense heat and energy. This natural phenomenon ...

Meet the walking shark, a species of shark that can walk on land, survive low oxygen environments, and reproduce without ...

The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living historical ...

Earth is home to creatures so strange, beautiful, and bizarre that it’s easy to forget we share the planet with them. These ...

When charted on a graph, 2023, 2024 and 2025 “seemed to jump up,” said NOAA climate monitoring chief Russ Vose. When averaged ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots separated by large areas of deep ocean. In these zones, surviving jawed ...