In the limestone zone of the Yucatan Peninsula, there is a natural fountain with groundwater in the sink hole called Cenote. The water of Cenote seems to be glowing blue and it is a popular tourist ...

SAN DIEGO - In what researchers describe as a historic step toward de-extinction science, an international team of gen ...

The beginning of agriculture can be said to have been a revolution that greatly advanced humanity, but in fact, it is not only humans who practice agriculture. It is known that ants also practice a ...

The extinction of dinosaurs about 65 million years ago helped create an environment where fruits could thrive, leading to the evolution of primates, a new study has found. The new study, published in ...

For decades, many scientists believed dinosaurs were already dwindling in number and variety long before an asteroid strike sealed their fate 66 million years ago. A new dinosaur fossil at the Denver ...

Named for its razor-like teeth, Novaculadon mirabilis came from a rodent-like order that outlived the dinosaur extinction before vanishing about 30 million years ago. By Sara Novak Around 145 million ...

Throughout the past 600 million years there have been five major mass extinction events that devastated life on Earth. While some of these events are very well studied, such as the killer asteroid ...

There are two posts on ScienceBlogs which highlight two perspectives on the Dinosaur mass extinction, What Wiped Out The Dinosaurs? and K-T extinction debates: cranky "skeptics" or reasonable science?

NEW YORK (Mainichi) -- "Don't choose extinction. Save your species before it's too late." Ahead of the 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference known as COP26 beginning Oct. 31, the United Nations ...

Not content with being summarily wiped out by what could have been a giant asteroid it now appears as though our scaled cousins also suffered from another particularly unlucky roll of the dice. In ...