The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Whether it's redfin pickerel in the Kennebec River or sturgeon in the Great Lakes, nearly one-third of freshwater fish ...

Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the aftermath of the ...

As the Atlantic warms, many fish along the east coast of North America have moved northward to keep within their preferred temperature range. Black sea bass, for instance, have shifted hundreds of ...

Five years ago, the economist Partha Dasgupta warned that business was self-cannibalising: consuming the natural systems it depends on as if they were infinite, while investing almost nothing in their ...

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A treasure trove of exceptional fossils from 512 million years ago—including 90 species previously unknown to science—is shining light on a mysterious page in the history of life. Paleontologists ...

Imagine Earth 360 million years ago: towering mountains near the equator, lush landscapes dotted with early plants, oceans teeming with life. It was the Late Devonian period – a time of dramatic ...

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A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 35 cm in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils of animals like Sacabambaspis from after the Late Ordovician Mass ...