Ancient Chinese poems provided unexpected data on the Yangtze finless porpoise's habitat decline, showing a 65% range ...

A new study led by our Earth Sciences department has made a surprising discovery about a mysterious fossil from the Cambrian period — over 500 million years ago.

In total, the development will create 1,939 new homes, a 920-room hotel, public amenities, a conference space and Indigenous-led reconciliation through art.

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest mollusks, has now been conclusively reclassified by ...

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest molluscs, has now been conclusively reclassified by scientists ...

A new study reveals that distal gene regulation via DNA looping evolved 150 million years earlier than previously believed.

Comb jellies "could repurpose [their] genetic toolkit in different ways like a Swiss knife," said the researchers.

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short ...

The west coast of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands in Canada offer some of the most unique and biodiverse snorkeling ...

A new study uses a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich mud deposits over thousands of years.

Instead, the study suggests, Deinosuchus belonged to an ancient lineage that split off ... when Deinosuchus lived, high global sea levels and a warm climate fed incredible growth within marshes ...