Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

Australian and US scientists discovered a new species of prehistoric snapping turtle after re-examining an unidentified fossil on display in a Northern Territory museum. The new species ...

In 1785, a Spanish official named Don Diego Ruiz was looking for illegal tobacco plantations in the Papantla region of Mexico (then called New Spain), near the modern-day city of Veracruz, when he ...

For some people, the very thought of the ocean is a scary one. And even if you haven’t got a phobia of sea animals or thalassophobia, it does get pretty eerie the deeper you think about it. I ...

As the geography of the region changes, mining, cargo ship traffic and wildfires have become more common, offering these (sometimes prehistoric) microbes a way to reach areas populated by vulnerable ...

We applaud U.S. President Joe Biden for protecting 625 million acres of ocean from oil and natural gas leasing. A sanctuary designation for the Hudson Canyon is still needed, said WCS's John Calvelli.

Fossilized remains from a giant flying reptile the size of a bus have been discovered in Argentina. The Dragon of Death, as scientists have dubbed the new species, hunted prey from Earth's skies ...

Erosion has eaten away at the work, adding to the challenge of studying them A series of camel sculptures carved into rock faces in Saudi Arabia are likely to be the oldest large-scale animal ...

On a new WCS Wild Audio, roughly 90% of coral reefs globally face collapse by 2050 due to human activity. Miamba Yetu, a creative new financing mechanism, is designed to help protect them off Kenya ...