Ma’o hau hele Hibiscus brackenridgei • Endangered since 1994 • Population of about 100-300 • Lives for over 5 years • ...

Can plants uncover the survival secrets of Earth’s darkest days? A research team from (UCC), the University of Connecticut, ...

A routine hunting trip in West Texas took an unexpected turn when a deer hunter stumbled upon what he believed to be a fossil ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing ...

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

A number of amazing creatures have fooled us into thinking they went extinct either millions of years ago or in modern times, ...

NOAA is made up of several branches that each handle a different climate control entity, such as environment satellites, ...

Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most ...

While the region offered a great diversity of fauna, Middle Paleolithic humans favored hunting the ancestor of cows, ...

This was an alarming start to the idea of gene de-extinction. As we know from movies like The Thing, digging up frozen creatures from the ice is a bad idea. Many scientists felt that recovering the ...

From daffodil festivals to sculpture trails and deer feeding, make the most of the sunshine with these spring events ...