Biologists have developed a new method to measure the extent to which regional geographic features -- including barriers between regions, like mountains or water -- affect local rates of speciation, ...
Los Angeles, CA (June 27, 2024) —A new study published in the journal Nature Communications led by paleontologists at the University of Bristol along with a team of international researchers, ...
An integrated fossil, occurrence and mitochondrial analysis places the origin of Marmota in North America and links its ...
New research shows that bursts of transposable element activity in ant genomes after the dinosaur extinction fueled the ...
The sky burned with streaks of crimson red and dark orange. The dinosaurs looked up — just in time to see a burning, bright flash streak across the sky. Then the asteroid hit, wiping out ...
About 60 million years ago, the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction occurred, wiping away almost a third of all existing animals, including dinosaurs, from planet Earth. In recent years, scientists ...
Diving birds like penguins, puffins and cormorants may be more prone to extinction than non-diving birds, according to a new study. The authors suggest this is because they are highly specialized and ...
An influx of invasive species can stop the dominant natural process of new species formation and trigger mass extinction events, according to research results published today in the journal PLoS ONE ...