For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

The secret to their longevity could help conservationists better protect species today threatened by extinction.

An in-depth assessment reveals that dozens of giant amphibians died on an ancient floodplain. Around 230 million years ago, ...

For scientists and conservationists, knowing how species survive planetary crises can lead to more effective protection of vulnerable species.

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate ...

Discover the most complete fossil of Mixodectes pungens, shedding light on early mammalian evolution, its arboreal lifestyle, ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...