For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and ...

Dire wolves became extinct over 10,000 years ago. Scientists believe this was the result of climate change and the loss of ...

Mountaintops host some of the world's most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these habitats into ...

“And that’s how it all started.” This choice helped spark a decades-long movement to revive a language at the edge of extinction. For the Sámi, language is more than communication—it’s ...

A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North America are at risk of extinction. Out of 759 pollinators — animals critical ...

Non-perishable food items will be collected for the Cabot Church Food Bank. To have your community or non-profit event added to this list, email information as soon as possible to cpinto-smith@ ...

Earth has seen several such events, which kill most life forms across the biological spectrum. These mass extinctions are as frightening as they are fascinating. For that reason, some storytellers ...

The most recent event, Snowboard Big Air, took place on March 28th, where the best big air boarders took to the slopes and the air. The Japanese competitors stunned the spectators with spectacular ...