I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

Otis, a juvenile green sea turtle was released back into the Atlantic Ocean after six months of care at The Florida ...

Iron is a micronutrient indispensable for life, enabling processes such as respiration, photosynthesis, and DNA synthesis.

Sea otters may be one of the ocean’s cutest critters, but they also play an important role in maintaining the health of ...

In the past 500 million years on Earth, there have been five mass extinctions. Here are a few incredible species that managed ...

The world and its ecosystems have been around for a long time — so long that the first mass extinction occurred “just shy” of ...

Researchers from Boston University have made a startling discovery: rocks are producing "dark oxygen" in a region currently ...

The startup made a big splash, then ran aground this summer. Its story has a lot to teach us about trying to geoengineer our ...

This was the Ordovician-Silurian extinction ... And now, there’s a new threat to human existence and many other forms of life here on Earth. Climate change. Temperatures and sea levels are rising ...

Let’s start with a clear definition of what constitutes a mass extinction. Unlike regular extinctions, which occur at a steady background rate — about 10% of species lost every million years — mass ...

After sifting through the data, it appeared that birds and mammals living on islands tend to have slower metabolism than their counterparts on the mainland. This slow pace extends to their ...