Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

Researchers have discovered huge landforms deep beneath the North Sea that suggest the region was swallowed by a giant ice sheet toward the middle of the last ice age. The scientists captured ...

From the hills of Tallahassee, the people shout with glee, “The Florida scrub jay is the new state bird ... world of the Anthropocene – the age of Homo sapiens – only 10% of Florida ...

21 states reported bird flu in wild birds, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In the last few years, perhaps after an adaptive mutation, bird flu has jumped to a wide number of ...

With centuries’ old primary source documents, a team of researchers in Romania are exploring how a region best known for vampire legends was drastically altered by the effects of the Little Ice Age.

It’s one of very few 3D bird skulls known to science from the Cretaceous — a 79-million-year geological period and the last era when non ... underway during the Age of Dinosaurs?

Nearly 100,000 ducks will be killed at Long Island’s last major commercial duck farm after bird flu was detected at the Suffolk County facility. Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue has played host ...

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