Palaeontologist Riley Black is back with a thrilling guide to how animals and plants co-evolved over millennia ...

Do animals play a larger role in shaping the Earth’s surface than geological processes like flooding, wind, fire, and ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

These herbivores primarily consume plants and vegetation ... for millions of years and hold the title of the largest animals on Earth. Their size varies dramatically, from the tiny pygmy right ...

Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

Salmon rearrange the gravel in streams when they prepare spawning sites, creating areas known as redds. This digging changes ...

For months, scientists conclude, dense clouds of dust blocked the sun's rays, darkening and chilling Earth to deadly levels for most plants and, in turn, many animals. Then, when the dust finally ...

United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at ...

Two scientists from Toho University and NASA’s Nexus for Exoplanet System Science ran computer simulations and found that ...

Discover how life on Earth evolved from muted tones to vibrant colours, and how scientists are uncovering the secrets of ...