The island of Daphne to the north of Santa Cruz

Mineral discoveries in the Galapagos Islands pose a puzzle as to...

piranha-like fish

Piranha-like specimen, 150 million years old, is earliest known flesh-eating fish

Thylacoleo carnifex

Climate change the likely killer of Australian marsupial lion

mosasaurs

Did mosasaurs hunt like killer whales?

An underwater picture of the modern demosponge species Rhabdastrella globostellata

Oldest evidence for animals

Tylosaurus fossil

Smallest ever Tylosaurus fossil sheds light on species

An illustration of how the smaller mammals will have to evolve and diversify over the next 3-5 million years to make up for the loss of the large mammals.

Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis

Sarahsaurus aurifontanalis

Newly described fossils could help reveal why some dinos got so...

Mekong River

New understanding of Mekong River incision

Meltwater accumulation within 160 feet of the surface causes these bright, white reflections to dim to grey from June to early August before stabilizing in late August.

Scientists find missing piece in glacier melt predictions

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