These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Crocodiles and alligators are usually the apex predators in whatever environment they live in. Their massive jaws and armored ...

In a new Science Advances study, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now proved that from this biological havoc, known as the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction ...

Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

Western Ghats is pivotal to life on Earth The word biodiversity is thrown about rather casually in conversation about the planet. Including by most politicians and developers, who are steadily, ...

The latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans, like previous editions, ignores the climate impacts of livestock and could make ...

A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 35 cm in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils ...

In November, we joined more than 50,000 Indigenous and world leaders, diplomats, scholars and activists at the 30th United ...

The Beneski Museum of Natural History has dramatic displays of fossil skeletons, from fish to dinosaurs to Ice Age ...

Conservation groups have pressured the industry to switch to synthetic alternatives to reduce horseshoe crab bleeding; in 2024, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the Horseshoe Crab Recovery ...