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

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

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

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

How animals of the Cambrian period experienced the Cambrian Explosion, which shaped life today and could help researchers understand life on other planets. Animals of the Cambrian period went through ...

The question of what non-human animals experience is front and center in the zeitgeist. The acclaimed book An Immense World, by science journalist Ed Yong, delves into the remarkable sensory ...

Dinosaurs have left a wealth of information behind in their fossils, including how they defended themselves, what they ate and sometimes even how they died. But when these beasts bit the dust, did ...

In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have successfully extracted RNA from a 40,000-year-old mammoth, the oldest genetic material of its kind ever recovered. This remarkable ...