World Reef Awareness Day 2025 highlights the coral reef crisis and the urgent need for global conservation action.

The end of the Ordovician, in contrast, was kicked off by the Earth’s thermostat firmly flipping to “cold” – and much like ...

Palaeontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what’s so unusual about her discovery, which she named as part of the process of ...

Ordovician-Silurian Extinction (about 443 million years ago): Around 85% of species went extinct, likely due to a combination of a drop in sea levels and glaciation, followed by rising sea levels ...

It lived in the immediate aftermath of the end Ordovician extinction event more than 440 million years ago, caused by glaciations (the spread of icy conditions) across vast swaths of the planet.

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

The Jaws Effect” is what scientists call people’s irrational fear of sharks based on Steven Spielberg’s 1975 hit summer movie ...