Scientists have uncovered a treasure trove of fossils buried under Arctic mud for about 250 million years. These remains, ...

WASHINGTON -- A steep decline in birds, butterflies and native plants in Britain supports the theory that humans are pushing the natural world into the Earth's sixth big extinction event and the ...

For a long time, the prevailing theory was that dinosaurs were already in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth ...

After years of detective work, University geosciences professor Gerta Keller and her colleagues have found that an intensive period of volcanic eruptions and a series of asteroid impacts likely ended ...

WASHINGTON — A steep decline in birds, butterflies and native plants in Britain supports the theory that humans are pushing the natural world into the Earth's sixth big extinction event and the future ...

The discovery of what could be the youngest fossil of a dinosaur to date--from a period notorious for being free of their remains--has reignited a clash among paleontologists about what caused the ...

The Endangered Species Act has been our national law for 50 years this year. Last month we recognized our endangered species including New Mexico's iconic lesser prairie chicken on Endangered Species ...