Ask just about any paleontologist, and he or she will tell you that life ... a few ancient species survived the impact and gave rise to a “big bang” of modern bird evolution only after the ...

Computer models predict that hotter, drier conditions in North America will limit the growth of a fungus that normally curbs the spread of the spongy moth, an invasive species that has caused millions ...

A team at the University of Calgary is making scientific advances in understanding plant adaptation, which could ultimately ...

Homo floresiensis, a metre-tall ancient hominin, lived on the South Pacific island of Flores and hunted dwarf elephants until ...

Lake Mendota bacteria evolve rapidly with seasonal changes, adapting to conditions yet returning yearly to near-original ...

After another record-breaking year for global temperatures in 2024, pressure is rising on policymakers to step up efforts to ...

We often see the results of evolution, but not the process directly. Now, scientists have been treated to front row seats of evolution unfolding in real time, as two similar lizard species ...

The Smithsonian Institution in the 1850s recruited hundreds of citizen scientists across the nation to track when they saw ...

A new study investigating ancient methane trapped in Antarctic ice suggests that global increases in wildfire activity likely occurred during periods of abrupt climate change throughout the last Ice ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Understanding how climate change impacts contaminant cycles as well as their sources, bioavailability, transport, and toxicity is critical to comprehending the evolving conditions of marine ...

Around 370 million years ago, Earth gradually descended into the longest lived and probably the most intense ice age ...