Today’s marine giants—such as blue and humpback whales—routinely make massive migrations across the ocean to breed and give birth in ...
Analysis of teeth of extinct lemurs has revealed fascinating clues to the evolution of humans, a University of Otago study ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (November 28, 2022) — For millions of years, the Steller’s sea cow, a four-ton marine mammal and ...
A big part of evolution is competition-- when there are limited resources to go around, plants and animals have to ...
A large wingless wood-eating cockroach, unique to Australia’s Lord Howe Island and thought extinct since the 1930s, has been rediscovered ...
Smithsonian researchers have discovered a new extinct species of lizard-like reptile that belongs to the same ancient lineage as New ...
LISLE, Ill. (July 7, 2022)—Botanical researchers representing a coalition of more than 10 institutions have discovered an oak tree once ...
Video // Photos Around 13,200 years ago, a roving male mastodon died in a bloody mating-season battle with a rival ...
New genetic research has found that the Galapagos giant tortoise Chelonoidis phantasticus is not extinct. Credit: Lucas Bustamante © Galapagos ...
A tortoise from a Galápagos species long believed extinct has been found alive. The tortoise, named Fernanda after her Fernandina ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (June 1, 2022) – A small, rare crayfish thought to be extinct for 30 years has been rediscovered ...
An international study provides the first global evaluation of all terrestrial vertebrate species that have not been declared extinct and ...
Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that body size is more important than body shape in determining the ...
Two University of Miami researchers were part of a team that rediscovered a tropical plant species believed to be extinct ...
Asteroids hold many clues about the formation and evolution of planets and their satellites. Understanding their history can, therefore, reveal ...
Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer ...
New research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Yale shows that the oldest ancestors of ...
Species go extinct twice – one time when the last individual stops breathing, and a second time when the collective ...
Steller’s sea cow was an extraordinary creature, an enormous, kelp-eating, cold-water relative of the dugong and manatees that was hunted ...
Different combinations of human hunting and climate change caused Australia’s famed ‘giant’ species to go extinct, and now it turns ...
