During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...
That quiet observation helped launch new research from Queen’s University showing that winter-active spiders make an unusually powerful antifreeze protein that lets them survive subzero temperatures ...
A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.
Salmon sushi feels timeless today, but its place in sushi culture is far more recent than most people realize. In this video, ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...
With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...
According to new research recently published in the journal Nature Communications, the Greenland shark retained its visual ...
Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...
In a new Science Advances study, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now proved that from this biological havoc, known as the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction ...
During a geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, drying out many of the vast, shallow ...
When people get hot, we can strip off clothing and we sweat to cool down. But animals such as cats and dogs aren’t so lucky.