Faced with extreme drought, these flowers adapted. Scientists call it “evolutionary rescue," and say it's a hopeful sign for ...

Life on Earth began to recover much faster than previously thought, after the fall of an asteroid that destroyed the ...

Waves of extinction have ripped through life on Earth over and over again during its long history. The non-avian dinosaurs ...

When the worst drought on record struck parts of the US West Coast and Mexico, many plants didn’t make it. But against the ...

Scientists study physical evidence such as cave art, hand-crafted tools, and skull structures to infer cognitive and speech capabilities ...

The New England Aquarium aerial photography team has spotted blue whales twice in a row in waters south of Nantucket Island (Massachusetts). This was reported by Popular Science magazine on March 15.

A silent, microscopic infiltration is reconfiguring the fundamental biology of the human species, as evidenced by a catastrophic fifty percent decline in global sperm counts documented over the last ...

There is something like less than one chance in 10 billion that this kind of thing could occur," said one expert.

There is much to see and hear over at this year’s Thin Line Fest in Denton this Wed, Mar 18 thru Sun, Mar 22, but the main ...

As humans expanded out of Africa and extended our dominion over the remaining continents, large animals began to go extinct wherever we reached. Known as the Late Quaternary Extin ...