New study reveals brief, globally coherent phosphorus spikes linked to ancient marine mass extinctions. The findings highlight how nutrient-cycle disruption can contribute to ocean oxygen loss and ...

Scientists discovered hidden phosphorus spikes in ancient limestone that may help explain two of Earth’s worst marine mass ...

Earth has a flair for dramatic resets, though it usually takes millions of years to deliver them. Over its long history, life has been knocked back by volcanic eruptions, climate swings, changing seas ...

Most people have encountered squid through their local seafood menu or field trip to an aquarium. Unlike octopuses, which are named for their eight arms, squid have 10 individual appendages. They most ...

These animals look all wrong. Not wrong like broken, wrong like they belong to a different Earth version. The frilled shark ...

High plant extinction rates are projected for southern Europe, the western U.S. and southern Australia by 2100, posing risks to plant species like these eucalyptus trees growing in Australia.

Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on why the ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Neanderthals survived from roughly 400,000 to 40,000 years ago, when they mysteriously disappeared. Mike Kemp / In Pictures / Getty Images Neanderthals lived successfully across Eurasia for hundreds ...

On October 16, 2023, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a rule removing 21 species from the list of species protected under the Endangered Species Act because of extinction. In a single ...