A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

Wildfires can burn and spread differently depending on what vegetation they burn. The two fires in northern Arizona have ...

Native grass species serve as vital germplasm resources and have evolved impressive traits like drought, cold, disease, and ...

When sunlight hits clouds or other atmospheric particles, it scatters and becomes diffuse light. Unlike direct sunlight, ...

A new study investigates how diffuse light affects evapotranspiration and carbon uptake across forest, grassland, shrub, and ...

A team of researchers led by the Smithsonian has discovered the oldest known pterosaur fossil in North America. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first ...

Some places defy simple description, and the Paramount Swap Meet is definitely one of them – an explosion of commerce, ...

Commentator Herb Paine reveals how the quiet disappearance of species signals a deeper unraveling of the web of life and challenges us to listen before the silence becomes permanent.

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

Renowned Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c.1914–1996) created compelling, powerful works that reflect her extraordinary life as an Anmatyerr woman born in Alhalker in the Sandover region of the ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...