The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the ...

Great apes began to diverge from other primates about 25 million years ago, according to eastern African fossil records.

Research conducted by Filip Kolář of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, and Patrick Meirmans of the University of ...

Natural Trap Cave is a pit in northern Wyoming into which countless animals have fallen and met their untimely demise since the Pleistocene. Paleontologists today find the cave a treasure trove — a ...

This tally of animals’ effect on Earth’s geology, equivalent to that of thousands of extreme floods, most likely is an ...

May 28, 2025 — A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested ...

May 29, 2025 — Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of ... Researchers Engineer a Herpes ...

helping to reveal the microbial adaptation mechanism of plateau animals. The study, conducted by researchers from the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology (NWIPB) under the Chinese Academy of ...

Qinghai Lake is located in the northeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, where precipitation is concentrated ... Visible roots and other plant residues were removed, and all soil samples were ...