About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

When most people think of massive snakes, the first one that comes to mind is the anaconda. Anacondas might be the largest ...

We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. On a remote island, a duck arrived hundreds of thousands of ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

The Christmas Island shrew is thought to be at least the third mammal species to go extinct on the island as a direct result ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species that evolution also involved a return trip. Dozens ...