Last summer, a pair of hikers were trekking through a rocky path in the Italian Alps. As they made their way down the ...

A new study predicts a grim future for humanity as Earth's continents drift towards forming a supercontinent. This will lead to extreme temperatures, reaching 40-50°C, making survival impossible ...

Pangea formed around 335 million years ago during the late Paleozoic era and dominated the planet until it began to break apart ... Many species couldn’t adapt to the rapid environmental changes, ...

the last period of the Paleozoic Era. The Permian Period ended with the largest known mass extinction on Earth - a direct result of rising temperatures. "Dinosaurs had not yet emerged at this time ...

In the fossil record, identical plants, such as the extinct seed fern Glossopteris, are found on now widely disparate continents. And mountain chains that now lie on different continents ...

During the Paleozoic Era, life crawled out of the sea for the first time, and amphibians, reptiles, and arthropods all evolved. The era ended with the Permian extinction, the largest extinction ...

(Ongaro et al., Nature Genetics, 2024) Ongaro and Huerta-Sanchez's review serves to highlight not just what we've learned, but just how little we know about the way distinct pockets of modern humans ...

These antiheroes of the American West are actually not so bad. New research reveals they're good parents and neighbors, and their venom may help save lives. This eastern blacktailed rattler coils ...

Baku, Azerbaijan, 13 November 2024 (IUCN) – Forty-four per cent of reef-building coral species globally are at risk of extinction, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ reveals following a global ...

The evolutionarily distinct carp species, which is not a salmon, but has a salmonlike appearance, had not in fact been spotted by anyone since 2005. Researchers feared it had gone extinct. But one man ...

An update to the Red List of corals by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), announced at the COP29 climate summit, revealed that 44% of coral species are now threatened with ...

People will be able to hear what extinct animals may have sounded like for the first time, thanks to Björk and AI software. The artist announced on social media that a new installation at Paris ...