Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining ...

Since 2005, the global count of living mammal species has risen by 25%.

Even as some scientists search for signs of life beyond Earth, other researchers have been discovering new species on our own humble planet faster than ever before. From high up in the mountains to ...

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.

An international study aimed at measuring the impact of mining critical metals from the seabed has found 788 species, many of them previously unknown, living at a depth of 4,000 metres in what the ...