Fossil evidence from North China suggests that some ecosystems may have recovered within just two million years of the ...

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth’s land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus ...

The Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction event may have wiped out some 85 percent of species, including many of the invertebrates this period ... in animals, plant extinctions were dominated by species ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals ...

In the Animal kingdom, certain species have developed fascinating strategies to enhance their chances of success in reproduction, including changing gender. A clownfish begins life as a male and ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

Additionally, although I don't want to swamp you with physics news, some theoreticians found evidence of two arrows of time in the quantum realm. And the complexity of birds' brains evolved ...

Chronology efforts led by researchers at Natural History Museum, London, and Historic England have produced 30 new dates for ...

Here’s what happened next. From animal encounters to Chance Encounters, CNN Travel’s hit series about love and friendship is now a new CNN podcast. Host Francesca Street chronicles marvelous ...