A new study precisely dates the event to 2.229 billion years ago and suggests that it may have been responsible for ending an ice age.

Chlorofluorocarbons and other substances were banned in 1989 under the Montreal Protocol.

Many plants reflect ultrasonic waves, thereby attracting the pollinators, but one cactus takes a different approach.

Genes related to the immune system stay active throughout the tree’s life.

Anemones keep their algae populations in check.

The invertebrate predators prey on and lay their eggs near emerging tadpoles, potentially threatening the conservation of endangered frogs, researchers find.

They’ve survived volcanic eruptions, but one Caribbean island’s mountain chicken frogs might need help from scientists to escape the lethal chytrid fungus.

As global temperatures rise and winters shorten, caterpillars of the corn borer moth are emerging earlier in parts of the US thanks to changes in two genes, researchers find.

Watch a predaceous diving beetle dine on a tadpole.