A mass extinction created the ecological conditions that set the stage for a dramatic shift in marine life.

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

Red blood is the exception, not the rule. Evolution has painted it green, purple and white in animals that push physiology ...

During a geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, drying out many of the vast, shallow ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

England is proposing a unique, new animal welfare plan that protects one animal in particular: the humble lobster. The ...

A new study, however, finds that this same signal may lure young lobsters to their doom, causing them to try to congregate ...