Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. bi...

As wildfires grow bigger and hotter in many parts of the world, researchers have embarked on an airborne mission to learn more about the severe storm clouds that sometimes form over the most intense b...

Lepidostrobus is a cone from lepidodendron tree.  It was named in 1828 by Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart (1801 – 1876), who was a French paleontologist, considered by many to be the father of paleobotany.  He also named Lepidostrobophyllum which are the individual cone bracts of which Lepidostrobus is the whole reproductive organ. See Mazon Monday #202.

Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented rise in avian fossil discoveries that directly inform our understanding of bird origins and evolution, the stepwise assemblage of the avian body plan,...

Is there a bigger, badder, blacker fossa alive in Madagascar?

Recent studies of expanded K-Pg boundary sites imply that the Chicxulub impact produced abundant fine dust Fine dust greatly enhances the infrared heat pulse produced by spherules reentering the ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s views are commonplace across the land.

Taeniolabis taoensis, the largest known multituberculate, is craniodentally one of the most well-known mammals from the early Paleocene of the Western Interior of the United States of America. Althoug...

A federal judge struck down part of Trump’s order cutting NPR and PBS funding, calling it viewpoint discrimination and a First Amendment violation.

Washington’s conduct in the Iran war is accelerating global chaos and deepening America’s dangerous isolation.