Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Scientists are cataloguing life on Earth at a pace that would have seemed impossible a generation ago, yet a growing share of ...

For a long time, the prevailing theory was that dinosaurs were already in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth approximately 66 million years ago, leading to the extinction of about 70% ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...

The last meal eaten by a wolf cub before its demise, some 14,400 years ago, has yielded new insight into how the woolly ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery from the remains of a wolf puppy found in Siberia, which had eaten woolly ...

Dire wolves, the canine companions from Game of Thrones and an extinct species of the real world, are back, but how did they make their return? A new documentary plans to reveal the scientific ...

The real big bird returns. A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that once towered over people. The company, Colossal ...

The term “de-extinction” often conjures images of Jurassic Park-style genetic manipulation, complete with ethical dilemmas and ecological chaos. But the reality of functional de-extinction—the ...