An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

While it could almost be my trousers size, "30 by 30" instead refers to a United Nations proposal to protect 30 percent of ...

For Massachusetts, the North Atlantic right whale represents more than a large animal moving through offshore waters. It ...

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

Human activity has accelerated extinction rates, raising concerns that we may be entering a sixth mass extinction.

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

The humble horseshoe crab, an ancient species crawling seafloors since before the dawn of the dinosaurs, was durable enough to survive the mass extinctions of eons past. But now, hundreds of millions ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

The U.S. State Department announced that it is directing American embassies located in the Western Hemisphere to report on human rights violations resulting from mass migration. "Mass migration and ...

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