perhaps in Antarctica Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent An illustration of the Vegavis iaai diving for fish off the coast ...

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In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Discover the remarkable bird fossil from Antarctica that is rewriting the story of bird evolution. Learn how this 69-million-year-old bird challenges previous theories.

And when a fish slacks off, the octopus isn’t shy about delivering it a swift slap. Teamwork Beneath the Waves New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution studied how the common octopus ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...