A doomsday scenario? NASA is tracking an asteroid that has a non-zero chance of striking Earth. We have some time to prepare, ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

"Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as 'vegavis,'" said professor Christopher Torres.

He discounts the view that an asteroid was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Twenty-two of North America’s 34 known species of dinosaurs were already extinct before an asteroid struck ...

We must act swiftly to course correct or California’s legal, regulated market will continue to face the risk of an extinction event,” Woodson wrote. Amy O’Gorman Jenkins, the executive ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

This discovery provides unprecedented insights into how birds evolved and diversified before the extinction event that wiped out the non-avian ... that modern birds originated during the Late ...

proving that modern birds were already evolving before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. At the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck ...

Join us for the kickoff of our Ang Lee retrospective with a 20th-anniversary, Valentine’s Day screening of the multiple-Academy Award-winning 'Brokeback Mountain'. Q&A w/ Ang Lee. Ang Lee's debut ...

The Cost of Preventing Extinction of Australia's Priority Species Feb. 3, 2025 — A new study has estimated it would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of ...