For scientists and conservationists, knowing how species survive planetary crises can lead to more effective protection of vulnerable species.

Learn why a comprehensive comparison of crocodile skulls, teeth, and jaws hints that generalists, not specialists are best ...

It turns out it does matter what you eat, especially to crocodylians — crocodiles, alligators and gharials — a species researchers say persisted despite two mass extinction events because they adapted ...

An in-depth assessment reveals that dozens of giant amphibians died on an ancient floodplain. Around 230 million years ago, ...

When spiders get sucked into a vacuum cleaner, can they eventually crawl back out, or do they suffocate in all that dust? Pamela Wyatt, San Diego Almost every spider sucked into a home vacuum ...

Researching their diet and ability to adapt to planetary upheavals to help protect the most vulnerable species today. Crocodiles are often seen as living fossils. Stubbornly unchanged prehistoric ...

In her recent book How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction, Shapiro builds on her vast experience studying ancient DNA (from woolly mammoths and bison to dodos and passenger pigeons ...