In a sobering assessment of the planet’s life-support systems, a team of researchers led by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography...
For decades, the image of the sauropod—the iconic long-necked, long-tailed dinosaur—has been one of slow, lumbering stability. We have long...
Two hundred and fifty-two million years ago, the Earth experienced an apocalyptic transformation. Known to geologists as the Permian-Triassic extinction...
As the world stands on the precipice of a new "Lunar Gold Rush," with national space agencies and private enterprises...
In the quiet, crushing darkness of the abyss, far beneath the reach of sunlight, life has long been thought to...
For generations, the evolutionary narrative of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) has been tethered to the arrival of humans in Australia....
While the global conversation regarding plastic pollution has long centered on the visible debris choking our oceans and the microplastics...
Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth was a vastly different place. The Cretaceous period was drawing to a close, a...
The story of Australia’s marsupials—a group encompassing everything from the iconic kangaroo to the elusive, sightless desert mole—has long been...
Deep beneath the crystalline waters of the western Pacific Ocean lies the Ontong Java Plateau (OJP), a colossal underwater landmass...
