Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

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A newly discovered fossil provides strong evidence that modern birds lived alongside dinosaurs. The 69-million-year-old skull ...

Today, the fossilized remains of these creatures are buried beneath a conspicuous layer of sediment or rock that geologists call the Cretaceous ... or a cooling climate that caused sea levels to drop ...

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Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

By Hiroko Tabuchi About 80 percent of manufacturing investments spurred by a Biden-era climate law have flowed to Republican districts. Efforts to stop federal payments are already causing pain.

Feb. 5, 2025 — A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has revealed that the network of no-take marine reserves supplies nearly half of the region's coral trout fishery ... The Cost of Preventing ...

P rojections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of ...