Shell crab fossils in 100 million year old amber (Image: He Wang & Xiangdong Zhao)
An international team of paleontologists has discovered exceptionally well-preserved tiny...
In the rainforest and in other tree populations around the world, the following clearly applies: Trees that grow quickly die young. (Image: Atelopus...
Piece of an enstatite-chondrite meteorite in which the researchers found a surprising amount of hydrogen. (Photo: L. Piani, Museum of Natural History in...
Aquatic plants are the service providers of marine ecosystems: They provide habitats for fish and other marine life, are food for migratory birds, part...
This is what a hibernating lystrosaur might have looked like. (Image: Crystal Shin)
The clever strategy with which some of today's animals survive times...
Exposed head of the sauropod embryo (Image: Kundrat et al. / Current Biology)
Sauropods - long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs - were the largest land animals to...
Icebergs and ice front of the Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier in West Greenland. (Image: Alfred Wegener Institute / Ingo Sasgen
Greenland is still covered by...
Analyzes of stalagmite samples from caves in the north of Laos have provided geochemical indications of climatic developments in the heavily populated Asian monsoon...
The tropical belt, shaped by rainforests, is expanding. (Image: NASA / iStock)
Over the past few decades, the Earth's tropical belt has expanded slowly...
The belly of this fossil ichthyosaur contains the central portion of another marine reptile that was only slightly smaller. (Image: Da-Yong Jiang, et...