A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.
Scientists have uncovered a new way embryonic cells divide when conventional mechanisms fail. Cell division underpins all ...
Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets ...
A large international study reveals that mammals tend to live longer when reproduction is suppressed. On average, lifespan ...
An international team of researchers, with the involvement of the UAB, has conducted a study that explains the evolutionary ...
Animals that researchers call “supersucklers” come back to nurse even after they can hunt, mate and fend for themselves.
BC's Philip Landrigan, M.D., and the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health present a sweeping new report showing plastic as a hazard at every stage of its life cycle Philip Landrigan ...
For decades, scientists have been counting annual growth rings—similar to tree rings—inside fossilized leg bones of ...
Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...
Analysis of woolly rhinoceros DNA recovered from the permafrost-preserved wolf further hints that the Ice Age beasts went ...
A rare sample from a woolly rhinoceroses reveals how the population changed in the lead-up to the species’ extinction.