17+ hour, 33+ min ago   (259+ words) It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards – and it very nearly ended life on our planet entirely BBC Wildlife Magazine It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards – and it very…...

20+ hour, 3+ min ago   (397+ words) Ptree is a website where you can navigate through the classification of organisms by clicking on them, and learn about various characteristics such as their diet and lifespan. I tried out this interactive Tree of Life, which allows you to…...

21+ hour, 42+ min ago   (1364+ words) A 21.9-million-year-old volcanic blanket preserved clues showing part of the Andes may have risen slowly for millions of years. (CREDIT: Frances J. Cooper) A volcanic eruption of extraordinary size buried an entire Andean landscape nearly 22 million years ago. Instead of erasing…...

22+ hour, 33+ min ago   (620+ words) 620 CKRM Garden Chat: Ginkgo — a living fossil Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is horticulture’s best-known living fossil. Abundant and cosmopolitan in the fossil record extending back 270 million years, the tree was thought long extinct by Western scientists. Then in 1690 botanist Engelbert Kaempfer…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (83+ words) Bioengineer.org For now, the specimen rests in the type collection under catalogue number PB206132, available for scrutiny by other researchers. The open-access publication ensures that the images and reconstructions can be independently assessed, an important step given how consequential the…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (54+ words) K.J. Genualdo • about 3 hours ago Zach Sweat • about 2 hours ago Zach Sweat • 13 days ago Zach Sweat • 16 days ago Phillip Hamilton • 8 months ago Uploaded by KimmyDude Sep 10, 2026 at 01:55PM EDT Resolution: (1602px x 2048px) File size: 480 KB 11 views (11 from today) extinction, paleo art, art...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (107+ words) Credit: Takashi Kamijo, University of Tsukuba This study provides rare genetic evidence of how plants colonize newly formed volcanic islands and offers important insights into the earliest stages of ecosystem establishment in isolated oceanic environments. The findings also highlight the…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (468+ words) Research in the museum The museum’s development into the 21st century Wednesday, 09. September 2026 / 13:52 Amber-preserved flowers from Southeast China show that lianas were already an established component of tropical rainforests 15 million years ago, during the Miocene. Researchers from China, France, Germany and…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (273+ words) Research in the museum The museum’s development into the 21st century Wednesday, 09. September 2026 / 13:02 Over the past 100 years, mammalogy has undergone a fundamental transformation: what was once a predominantly descriptive discipline has evolved into a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary field of research, the findings…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (510+ words) The Galápagos snapdragon, once close to disappearing, is showing encouraging signs of recovery through a long-term partnership between the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galápagos National Park Directorate. For decades, the Galápagos snapdragon was known from little more than a…...