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250 million years ago, a dinosaur,

Image Credit: mattk1979 via Flickr Global warming has done a lot of damage this summer, from deadly flooding in Pakistan to the heat wave of the millennium in Russia. Now, the New York Times reports, there's another victim to add to the list: coral

Hollywood isn't the only place where people and prehistoric creatures met: Just 3,000 years ago (a relative blink of an eye), humans on

We've had a pretty good run with this old planet of ours, haven't we? Sure, she's a tad crowded and a little polluted. Okay, so she might be running a little hotter than she did before too, but we're getting by. One day, however, we may have to upgrade

If you have run out of controversial topics for dinner conversation, or websites to stumble upon, here's one for you. The Incredible Shrinking Man project researches and reviews the "implications of genetically

It's almost quaint to think that our ancient ancestors, living some 10,000 years ago, may have altered the planet's climate, just like us. Though unlike today, a time when our thirst of fossil fuels is heating up the planet, a new

Photo credit: Ryan Hill Wade Davis might have the most amazing job on the planet. Trained as an anthropologist and ethnobotonist, he's lived among some of the most remarkable cultures of the world and been witness to (and participant in) many moments

Tam may be one of the most eligible bachelors on the planet right now, but still his friends are having a hard time finding him a date. He's just one of an estimated 10 to 30 Borneo rhinos left in the wild and it may be up to him to keep his species

In China, it's shark fin soup, in Japan it's blue fin tuna for sashimi and sushi, and in the U.S. it's our love of nice thick fish fillets and billions of fish sticks consumed annually - these cultural habits are

Scientists aren't sure exactly how many snow leopards remain, but one thing's for sure: their numbers are dwindling--estimates range from 3,500-7,000 in the wild. In the mountains of Mongolia, though, a group of scientists from Panthera and the Snow Leo

A gecko found in the rocky foothills of Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains has been declared a new species after examination of its unique color pattern and scale characteristics. And the Ghost Orchid, a rare plant named for

What a fabulous name for a tree: the Great Oak at the Gates of the Dead. And what a pity that this 1,200 year old oak tree has split down the middle and died this month.

Important specimens from one of the world´s oldest and rarest species of plant were stolen last weekend, covert ops style, from a botanical garden

Break a leg, they say in show business. We can handle that. But humans, despite being the rulers of Earth, can't regenerate lost appendages. It seems that the more advanced the species, the less able they are to regrow legs, claws or heads. So break a hea

At the time this was written there were 6,803,449,018 human beings on the planet. Right now, there are about 3,300 simakobu monkeys left in the dwindling forests of Indonesia; Less than 300

Photo: The Art Archive digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/scientists-attempt-to-resurrect-extinct-giant-ox.php'; Two million years ago, an enormous species of ox, called Aurochs, emerged from regions of northern India and migrated into

This is getting downright embarrassing. Australia just keeps on winning the big ones, even nudging out our arch rival, the USA, in environmental impact. The trophy cabinet already has Australia's name inscribed on awards for: • highest rate of mammals

One look at a newly discovered species of gecko, small enough at its full-grown size to rest comfortably on the eraser of a pencil, and it's difficult not to be mesmerized by the seemingly boundless forms of biological