"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack Hatfield.

It turns out that a gene called LTR5Hs activates a gene that affects the growth of an embryo and the proliferation of stem ...

The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for their demise.

The Red Sea didn't just part, as the Biblical account goes. Millions of years ago, it just vanished until a colossal flood refilled it shortly after.

There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and ...

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering ...

The team found evidence that after 4 million years, there were microbes living within the crater, while it was still pretty ...