New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as ...

Around 800,000 to 900,000 years ago, a genetic bottleneck occurred, drastically reducing the human population. This event led to the extinction of 98.7% of the population, leaving only about 1,280 ...

Three million years ago, an extinct relative of today's great penguins—emperors and kings—lived in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Nicolás Rascován, a geneticist at the Pasteur Institute in France who was not involved with the research but did help peer-review the paper, echoes that sentiment, adding that the research “opens the ...

A fossil discovery in New Zealand reveals a giant penguin ancestor species that thrived in warm seas three million years ago.

In the early 1990s, when I first moved to Montana, I learned that come fall, the average Treasure State angler lost interest in fish and began dreaming of elk. I got in the act myself, killing a ...

The historian Kyle Harper on the history of plagues, the rise of anti-vaccination politics, and why measles is back in America ...

A planetary perspective on the relationship between life and energy, and the emergence of a life form whose influence extends across the entire biosphere — presenting us with an awesome opportunity.