Since time immemorial, humankind has wondered about its lineage: where it came from and how it got here. Modern science has ...

A giant predator was stalking what is now Britain roughly 415 million years ago, long before forests spread and before the ...

Human beings have existed for 300,000 years and have managed to live in many unstable environments. We've survived ice ages, devastating pandemics and world wars. But how would we fare even further ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

Ottawa, August 5, 2020 - Zebrafish are a common aquarium species, of value to hobbyists and scientists alike. Researchers have now engineered an unusual change in them that has echoes of Jurassic Park ...

In the long stretch of geological time, Cleveland once sat under a shallow inland sea rather than the grid of roads and ...

A family explores the Devonian Fossil Gorge in Iowa City on Friday, June 18, 2021. Visitors can view fossilized remains of the sea creatures that made up the floor of the ocean that covered the ...

A long, long time ago — between 378 million and 375 million years ago — about half of all species on the planet vanished. The trigger for this mass extinction, one of five known in Earth's history, ...