A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth’s mass extinctions.

High above the rainforest floor, tiny ponds form in the leaves of plants perched on tree branches. Frogs breed in these ponds ...

The meteorological conditions in the area of the Bisbal d'Empordà fire have been very adverse for most of the hours it has ...

We tend to think that animals avoid inbreeding at all costs, but scientific studies contradict that assumption ...

One of the most crucial points in evolution has been particularly badly recorded in the fossil record, but some questions are ...

Scientists say the "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out.

I eat beef every day, twice a day,” Kennedy boasted to the hooting crowd. The secretary’s beef-intensive diet, which is ...

Researchers discovered fossil evidence showing that spionid worms, parasites of modern oysters, were already infecting bivalves 480 million years ago. High-resolution scans revealed their distinctive ...

One of the so-called godfathers of AI, Yoshua Bengio, claims tech companies racing for AI dominance could be bringing us closer to our own extinction through the creation of machines with ...

Anna Nordseth is an ecology writer and Duke University Ph.D. candidate specializing in tropical forest ecology, conservation research, and biodiversity. Boreal forests, or taiga, are found between 50 ...