Can we turn to the past to learn more about how interactions between plants and pollinators changed during climate change? This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...

While natural disasters are all extremely heartbreaking, a few of them are so powerful and dramatic that they become a topic of conversation for millions of years. A few such examples are massive ...

Planet Earth used to be something like a cross between a deep freeze and a car crusher. During vast stretches of the planet’s history, oceans from pole to pole were covered with a blanket of ice a ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected witness to Earth’s distant past: tiny iron oxide stones called ooids. These mineral snowballs lock away traces of ancient carbon, revealing that oceans between ...

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Vera Korasidis received funding from the University of Melbourne Elizabeth and Vernon Puzey Fellowship Award. Scott Wing's fieldwork was supported by the Roland W. Brown fund of the Department of ...

Early Eocene forest, Wyoming, U.S. Illustration by Julius Csotonyi, Smithsonian Institution Pollinators play a vital role in fertilising flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our ...