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

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

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

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

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

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

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

For the first time, a team of experts from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), RWTH Aachen University, and the German ...

A new study finds Greenland sharks retain functional vision for over 100 years, challenging the belief that the world’s ...

And in 2007, the Hollywood actor Nicholas Cage bought the skull of a Mongolian Tyrannosaurus bataar for $270,000 (£140,000), ...

In a new Science Advances study, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now proved that ...