California's legal cannabis industry could be in for a brutal 2025, with a major tax increase looming on the horizon.

The impending cannabis excise tax increase is thanks to a 2022 deal brokered between Democrats in the legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration. The agreement dropped a widely loathed ...

Mass extinction events are infamous, entirely destroying many species in one fell swoop. But this particular extinction event ...

Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis ...

Discover the remarkable bird fossil from Antarctica that is rewriting the story of bird evolution. Learn how this 69-million-year-old bird challenges previous theories.

KONYNDYK: Well, I think this is if this goes forward, it really is an extinction-level event for the global aid sector in the United States -- and really for much of the global relief and ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave about the fluid dynamics of crowds, an early fossil of a modern bird and new data on how people's moods change through the day.

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.