It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...
The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...
Earth has seen many different and strange forms of life over hundreds of millions of years. Scientists examine fossils to ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
Habitat loss, deforestation, the illegal wildlife trade and climate change are pushing these extraordinary species towards extinction. View on euronews ...
A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.
"She had been in the lab and recognized how to identify fishes, and said that's something valuable that we have to preserve.” ...
These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...
At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...
Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...
Twelve years after Australia’s 'extinct' night parrot was rediscovered, a worrying new investigation has revealed swathes of ...
Dozens of adventurers are hoping to claim a $10,000 reward, which is on offer to anyone who can provide proof that the South ...