When deciding whether to shelter in place during an emergency, social roles, environmental knowledge, economic status, and other factors weigh heavily over government information and directions, according to a new Yale School of the Environment study.
"There's...
Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds— including the ones alive today—are dinosaurs. And while the first Archaeopteryx fossil was found more...
A new study published in PeerJ reveals that the teeth of South American sea lions (Otaria byronia) hold valuable clues about past population dynamics....
Over 20 years ago, then Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri banned the export of sea sand from her archipelago nation.
The ban was in response to...
Antarctic sea ice rebounded in December after a long period of record lows, US scientists said, giving pause to speculation that Earth's frozen continent...
Climate change impacts not only life on land but also the largely unexplored deep-sea ecosystem, home to unique and largely unexplored fauna. Deep-sea animals,...
Research led by the University of Southampton has revealed that several groups of meat-eating dinosaurs stalked the Bexhill-on-Sea region of coastal East Sussex 135...