On Thursday, July 16, join Harris Center Naturalist Susie Spikol for a fascinating journey to the Ice Age to discover the colossal beasts that once roamed New England.

For the Tasmanian devil, time is running short as the species faces shrinking genetic diversity. As the largest living ...

In the late 1990s in the Ajimu region of Japan's Oita Prefecture, researchers discovered three fossilized vertebrae belonging ...

New biomechanical research shows Smilodon's legendary saber teeth came with a surprisingly weak bite — and reveals the real ...

The cave lion was one of the biggest cats to ever live, prowling a huge swath of territory from Western Europe across Siberia and into North America and hunting large prey — and perhaps even people — ...

Every mass extinction in Earth’s history had something in common: the environment changed faster than life could adapt. That idea has been around in various forms for decades, but it had never been ...

Life on Earth took a long evolutionary journey that eventually created us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates the planet. But there was no grand plan or design, only happenstance, ...

Life on Earth underwent a long evolutionary journey that eventually gave rise to us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates the planet. But there was no grand plan or design, only ...

While many tropical species such as this Asian Tree Frog are threatened by climate change, species in temperate regions are affected by local extinction to an even greater degree, according to the new ...

Contributed by Michael E. Mann; received December 31, 2024; accepted April 26, 2025; reviewed by Hugues Goosse and Mikhail Verbitsky Here, we examine the carbon cycle behavior in the CLIMBER-2 model ...