President Joe Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some US coastal waters, locking in difficult-to-revoke protections during his final ...

With dramatically increased fossil samples and new insights into modern variation, we argue that taxonomy can be approached with more scientific rigor. We propose a hypothesis-testing approach to ...

This ancient group of animals includes soft corals and sea fans, many of which produce bioluminescence when disturbed. The team compared octocoral fossils and genetics to create an evolutionary ...