Each year on March 3, World Wildlife Day draws global attention to the plants and animals that make life on Earth possible.

In the 1790s, a coterie of Western Pennsylvanians rose up against a federal tax on whiskey. Unlike the Boston Tea Party, these protestors had representation in our young nation, but they still didn’t ...

Want to get close to life millions of years ago? It's easier than you think. Here are 15 amazing fossils you could find ...

Isotope evidence from fossil otoliths shows Caribbean reef food chains have shrunk by up to 70%, signaling a major loss of ...

Human activity has lessened the resilience of modern coral reefs by restricting the food-fueled energy flow that moves through the food chains of these critical ecosystems, reports an international ...

A new analysis published in the journal Nature highlights the dimensions of modern coral reef degradation, according to an international team of researchers, including scientists from Boston College's ...

Long before modern pigs rooted through forests and farmyards, their prehistoric relatives roamed ancient landscapes. And they looked far more fantastical while doing so. Some species sported elongated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The post Fossils Reveal Pig Ancestors with Unicorn-Style Features appeared first on A-Z Animals. Long before modern pigs rooted ...

It was a spine-tingling discovery. Fossil hunters might’ve just made the find of a lifetime — the skull of a supersized dinosaur from “hell” with a swordlike horn protruding from its head, per a study ...

Deep-sea coral fossils used by researchers to study carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Southern Ocean played a critical role in the rapid atmospheric carbon ...

A newly discovered species of large dinosaur lived in marshy areas, hunted for fish and had an impressive horn protruding from its skull. It is the first time in over 100 years that scientists have ...