Earth Enters 6th Mass Extinction


Paul Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies in biology and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment along with his fellow researchers have declared that the...

Rockies:’Mother Lode’ Of Half-Billion-Year-Old Fossils Found


The Burgess Shale, one of the world’s most remarkable fossil formations, has yielded yet another extraordinary glimpse into the earliest history of animal life. The discovery, described as a ‘mother...