Long before dinosaurs appeared Earth was shaped by a vast and unfamiliar world known as the Paleozoic Era Fossils from this time reveal early experiments in life including strange marine creatures tow ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have been freezing living cells from endangered species. Here’s how the Frozen Zoo® is ...

Jefferson County, Alabama marks record four-year streak without tornado warnings ...

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, which has produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves and the woolly mouse, seeks to bring back extinct species.

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key oxygen-processing enzyme back hundreds of millions of years before the Great ...

As the planet warms, many expected ecosystems to change faster and faster. Instead, a massive global study shows that species turnover has slowed by about one-third since the 1970s. Nature’s constant ...