When daily newspapers and mainline Protestant denominations and Elks Lodges fade into irrelevance, when sit-down restaurants ...

A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of ...

The world's only population of wild Devils Hole pupfish shrank to 38 members after two earthquakes greatly affected the ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

An in-depth assessment reveals that dozens of giant amphibians died on an ancient floodplain. Around 230 million years ago, ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

A Texas-based genetics company says the long-extinct dire wolf is back. Some critics say that's not quite true.

Who were the Denisovans? Denisovans are the first group of ancient extinct archaic humans to have been discovered based on their DNA alone, even though this happened by accident. Mark Cuban ...

Thunderstorms are in the forecast this afternoon and evening. Some of them could be on the strong side featuring small hail.

Scientists scooped sand from a riverbed in Thailand and found two nymphs of rare mayfly species not seen in 22 ... 13 in the peer-reviewed journal Check List. Mayflies are a group of flying ...

A question that we have all asked ourselves at some time is what will happen when human beings become extinct or what species may appear after humanity on our planet. Well, a book written by ...