Humans didn’t just outlast the last Ice Age; after it ended, we rewrote the script for the evolution of the world’s mammal communities. Over the past 10,000 years, the rise of agriculture and ...

Fossil records from six continents tell a clear story about how humans reorganized the animal kingdom during the Holocene era. In a new study, researchers examined more than 350 fossil and ...

More than a dozen mammal species shimmer and glint purple and green, like precious opals. Their fur is iridescent, meaning its colour appears to change depending on the animal’s orientation relative ...

If you were to design the strangest diet possible, eating nothing but ants and termites would probably make the shortlist. Yet over the past 66 million years, mammals across the globe have repeatedly ...

It sounds like an easy question, but the answer depends on who you ask. Scientists, historians, and even pop culture all have different labels, like the Digital Age, the AI Era, or the Modern Period.

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Occidental has bought Holocene, marking the second direct air capture startup the fossil fuel company has bought in two years. The deal was executed through Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, a subsidiary of ...

Occidental Petroleum subsidiary Oxy Low Carbon Ventures has acquired Holocene Climate Corp., Knoxville, Tenn. Holocene holds liquid, low-temperature direct air capture (DAC) technology that Occidental ...

Lori Guetre, vice president and head of business development for Carbon Engineering (CE), from left, Michael Avery, president and general manager for Direct Air Capture (DAC) for North America at ...

Zebra stripes? Leopard print? Neither were in vogue among the earliest mammals during the Age of Dinosaurs. Early mammals and their close relatives probably sported dark, drab coats from snout to tail ...