The Arctic landscape during the Cretaceous Period may have been dominated by the dinosaurs, but the rivers and streams held something more familiar. Alaska's fresh waters 73 million years ago were ...

Antarctic krill do not only react to external environmental influences such as light or food. They also use their internal clock to adapt to the extreme conditions of the polar environment.

A new study led by our Earth Sciences department has made a surprising discovery about a mysterious fossil from the Cambrian period — over 500 million years ago.

To pinpoint how climate change will play out, scientists are trying to solve a painstaking puzzle with clues etched in ...

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest mollusks, has now been conclusively reclassified by ...

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest molluscs, has now been conclusively reclassified by scientists ...

The biodiversity of Earth's oceans is disproportionately concentrated in coral reefs—the vibrant undersea ecosystems where ...

For over two decades, Suquamish tribal member Joshua George has dived into the emerald waters of the Salish Sea looking for ...

“Second, the empirical evidence indicates that conscious experience is at least a realistic possibility in all vertebrates ...

Sophie Cohen-Bodénès told Newsweek: "We are investigating quantitatively if cuttlefish also use the signs to interact with prey." ...

Past work from Ilardo has shown that nomadic Bajau divers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have especially large ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...