In this week’s newsletter: the archipelago at the centre of the extreme weather phenomenon could help scientists predict how other marine ecosystems will adapt to our warming climate ...

Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are so fragmentary that scientists have ...

Think of a warm-blooded animal. You're probably picturing a cow or a dog, maybe an elephant. But how about a tuna?

An international study led by researchers from the University of Tartu shows that approximately 470 million years ago, a ...

Australia preserves one of the longest and most extraordinary fossil records on Earth, spanning more than 500 million years ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction while most animals did not. About 252 million years ago, 96% of marine ...

Overfishing happens when fish are caught faster than they can be replenished, resulting in an overall depletion of the fish population. This not only poses a threat to ocean health and biodiversity ...

Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion years. Using cutting‑edge science and immersive visu ...

When Mark Kraus came across copious amounts of coyote poop on the trails of Montgomery Botanical Center, south of Miami, he couldn’t help but start dissecting it. Kraus, a retired chair of the natural ...

How well do we really understand the electrical systems powering today’s vessels? Many of us realize how important electricity is to our modern world but may be a bit shaky on the specifics. The Welsh ...

Abstract: In this article, we detail a novel technique for measuring volume and textural parameters of coarse-grained marine sediments. The technique combines radio frequency identification (RFID) ...