The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

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 ...

Come along on a guided tour of the strangest animals in Cincinnati's strangest neighborhood, from fungus-eating ants to a ...

Triops are so old that they are considered living fossils and will eat anything possible, including earthworms.

Habitat loss, deforestation, the illegal wildlife trade and climate change are pushing these extraordinary species towards extinction. View on euronews ...

"She had been in the lab and recognized how to identify fishes, and said that's something valuable that we have to preserve.” ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Once at risk of being wiped out, humpback whales charted a remarkable comeback thanks to their songs. In 1979, National ...

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...