Denver has long been a launching off point for outdoor adventures, but did you know there are 15 national parks near Denver?

Estimated to have reached an astonishing length of 15 meters (49 feet), this prehistoric giant existed around 47 million years ago during the Eocene epoch. The fossil remains were first unearthed in ...

Fossilized teeth found in Peru suggest monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America 30 million years ago, ...

Beyond its reputation as a cowboy state, Wyoming is great for skiing, hiking, mountaineering, camping, hunting, and pretty ...

Its fossilized remains provide us with interesting information about the Indian subcontinent's biodiversity during the Eocene epoch. Scientists believe that it was a slow-moving ambush predator ...

Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...

Geologists show how ... Social Media Can Help Track Species as Climate Changes Mar. 13, 2025 — Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in response to climate ...

Scientists have been debating the start of the Anthropocene Epoch for 15 years. I was part of those discussions, and I agree ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times ... unhurried sense of a geologic epoch—it would be nearly impossible to watch a species vanish. Such an event would occur too infrequently for ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

Mar. 19, 2025 — To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only ...

Rational argument about the right and wrong way to treat animals is made more difficult by the deep love that many of us feel for animals. For philosophers it raises fundamental questions about ...