In 1969, fossilized leaves of the species Othniophyton elongatum — which translates to “alien plant” — were identified in eastern…

On February 2, 1887, residents of Punxsutawney Pennsylvania consulted a large rodent regarding the arrival of spring, marking the first…

A recent paleontology exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History put fossils and scientists on full display. The exhibit…

During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died near…

If you’d stopped monitoring the Adriatic Sea’s marine life in the mid-20th century, the outlook would have been promising. Snails…

Electric power companies dedicate significant resources to clearing overgrown plants and debris from the area surrounding power lines. These areas…

How does one species become two? If you’re a biologist, that’s a loaded question. The consensus is that, in most…

Nitrogen fertilizers make it possible to feed the world’s growing population, but they are also costly, harm ecosystems and require…

The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is…

In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers evaluated how a type of professional development, called train-the-trainer, could…