During mass extinction events or periods that were particularly warm, the role of coastline geometry in extinction risk was ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

The deep ocean off southern California has historically been a dumping ground for the pesticide DDT and other industrial wastes. Scripps Institution of Oceanography and collaborators are investigating ...

A new study estimates that more than 9000 insects and other native invertebrates have become extinct in Australia since European arrival in 1788 and between 1-3 additional species become extinct every ...