Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sense temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at night ...

In the harsh deserts of northern Kenya, prides don’t make sense. So lions have figured out another way to survive. ByChristine Dell'Amore August 9, 2019 •8 min read ...

University of California Riverside research reveals plants use sugar and thermal signals to detect daytime heat.

Echidnas, also called spiny anteaters, are some of the weirdest mammals in the world. They're among the only mammals that don't give birth to live babies, and they also carry their young in a pouch.

By the time of Spinosaurus, 95 to 100 million years ago in the Cretaceous period, several groups of reptiles had evolved to live in marine environments, such as the dolphin-like ichthyosaurs and ...

A newly discovered object, dubbed A11pl3Z, appears to be moving too fast and straight to have originated in the solar system.