Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.

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One thing gaining traction in scientific circles is the consensus that warmer oceans caused by climate change are giving storms extra energy.

Scientists discovered a new dinosaur species in the Sahara, Spinosaurus mirabilis, that likely hunted fish in shallow rivers.

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China is transforming the Taklamakan Desert into a “carbon sink” capable of absorbing CO2 and redefining the arid climate on a large scale.

Invasive species are imported as livestock, pets and attractions in zoos. Some hitch rides on plants, on the bottom of a boot, in the ballast of ships. Then they wreak havoc. Here's how we're ...

Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so. Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired ...

Concepts such as spraying sulphur particles into the upper atmosphere to cut down on solar radiation, spraying water onto polar ice to thicken it and prevent loss during the summer, and constructing a ...

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These unusual Florida museums feature shipwreck treasure, cryptids, oddities, and exhibits so strange you will not believe ...