Scientists extracted RNA from a 130-year-old specimen, uncovering which genes were active before the animal went extinct.

Argentavis magnificens was so massive it should’ve stayed grounded. Yet, this giant prehistoric bird still ruled the skies of ...

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

In many Western contexts, organized religion is declining, often due to hypocrisy, politicization or shallow faith. But ...

80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously thought, starting with evolutionary changes in its bite.

South Australians are suddenly hearing a lot about oyster reefs—from government, on the news and in conversations, both online and in person. It's not accidental.

Scientists have confirmed sightings of the elusive manumea, a bird closely related to the extinct dodo, offering new hope for ...

The scimitar-horned oryx has been brought back from extinction through captive breeding. Conservationists hope it could help slow the spread of the Sahara Desert. When Marie Petretto and John Newby ...

Association of paleopalynological data from the Nanxiong Basin, south China, and late Paleocene niche expansion in endemic Asian fossil mammals.

Where others might seek to reconstruct a woolly mammoth from centuries-old sequences, Ginsberg is part of an interdisciplinary project to recreate the scents of plant species lost to human colonial ...

A team of researchers reconstructed an ancient marine ecosystem – and discovered a previously unseen seventh layer in its ...