Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Many animals have evolved to tolerate extreme environments, including being able to survive crushing pressures ...

Cold-water fish are losing their habitats in temperate lakes due to a climate change "squeeze," scientists have found. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes erupted, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...

Biologists have explored the genetic mechanisms underlying the transition from freezing Antarctic waters to more temperature waters by Antarctic Notothenioid fish. Many animals have evolved to ...