Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

Deep in the Ecuadorian Andes, the Yanacocha Reserve is the last refuge for a tiny hummingbird teetering on the edge of extinction.

Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass ...

A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 35 cm in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils of animals like Sacabambaspis from after the Late Ordovician Mass ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Six animal species, including the slender-billed curlew and Christmas Island shrew, were confirmed extinct in 2025. Habitat loss, invasive species, climate change, and hunting are the primary drivers ...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said it is dissolving the 58-year-old nonprofit umbrella organization that oversaw government funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public ...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPR) will shut down after its board voted to dissolve the organization, marking a major shift in federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public TV and ...

The board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1968 to oversee the federal government’s investment in public TV and radio, formally voted ...

Believed to be descendants of Coronado’s 1540 expedition, meet the remaining Dahl Heritage Sheep. Dahl Heritage Sheep are a living link to New Mexico’s early Spanish settlement and possibly Coronado's ...

Sixty-five million years ago, tiny primates clung to survival in the shadows of dinosaurs’ extinction. Today, their descendants command the planet. This is the awe-inspiring saga of human evolution.