Grasshoppers are comical-looking bugs with massive jumping legs and wings that help them sail away from you or another danger ...

From mastodons to ancient rhinos and giant deer, large herbivores have been shaping Earth's landscapes for millions of years.

An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigantic sizes in response to ...

The relationship between the southern Brazilian tropical Atlantic lowland rain forest and modern pollen rain was studied by pollen traps. The study was carried out on a one hectare plot undisturbed ...

It pales in lushness to the mighty Amazon rainforest to the north, the green lungs of the Earth. Even some scientists who study the Cerrado call it ugly; the common term for its scrubland is ...

curid=93353722 The Amazon rainforest is teeming with biodiversity, and among its most captivating features are the birds. The biodiversity, colors, and behaviors have captured the imagination of ...

a group of long-necked herbivores within the larger diplodocoid family. These fossils were found in the Huincul Formation and date back approximately 94 million years to the Late Cretaceous period.

There is something that is to be said for finales. They can either tie things up beautifully or they can make us struggle to understand what the writers were thinking. We can find joy or confusion ...

The Amazon rainforest may be able to survive long-term drought caused by climate change, but adjusting to a drier, warmer world would exact a heavy toll, a study suggests. The Amazon rainforest ...

This suggests that dense forests only became widespread after humans eliminated the large herbivores. "Our results provide strong evidence that the closed-forest model commonly used in restoration ...