Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic ...

Brood XIV, one of the biggest broods, emerges across a dozen US states this ... scientists were able to assign the ancient ...

“It’s 5,000 years of creativity,” said Kate Parsons, the museum’s director of collection care and access. It took more than a ...

As our domesticated herds grow, wildlife is becoming rarer and rarer. Rethinking our responsibilities to animals will be hard ...

That’s not exactly futuristic though, because in countries such as Mexico (as well as parts of Africa and South-East Asia), ...

Could Earth’s very first insects have arrived on ancient meteorites? Some scientists believe the building blocks of insect life or even early life forms themselves may have traveled through space on ...

Brood XIV, one of the biggest broods, emerges across a dozen ... scientists were able to assign the ancient insect to a modern tribe of cicadas called Platypleurini, “which is today primarily ...