The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author ...

Bill Nye let a packed crowd at the Orange Convention Center know that it’s not a good idea to send a human on a one-way trip ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There have been five major extinction events that have fundamentally changed how ...

Dire wolves stalk modern imagination as fantasy mascots, but the real animals were Ice Age predators that lived, hunted, and ...

Recent digs revealed roughly 20 feet of a long-necked dinosaur's skeleton, and paleontologists suspect even more bones are ...

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson—a motto that perfectly captures the journey of ...

LANL NEWS RELEASE On May 28, 2014, “Los Alamos National Laboratory” was one of the question categories on the television game show Jeopardy! Prompted by short videos filmed at the ...

Scientists discover 90 new species in Chinese fossils revealing how deep-ocean refuges preserved life after mass extinction ...

Instead, environmental cues trigger changes in gene activity, which then change levels of key enzymes and hormones. In ...

Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...