The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience ...

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity—a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new species—may have the most modest of creatures to ...

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

Fossil data are used to reconstruct interactions between different species and between species ... plants from streptophyte algae during the Ordovician period. Here, the authors analyze a fossil ...

Described by its discoverers as a “sea moth”, the new-to-science species was a kind of radiodont, one that had a feature not seen in any other member of this group. It was discovered by ...

But that’s exactly what the Trump administration is proposing to do by changing how one word in the Endangered Species Act is interpreted: harm. For 50 years, the U.S. government has interpreted ...