The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

Extinction isn't just a natural loss; it impacts humanity by erasing scientific knowledge, cultural connections, and ...

A report was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), specifically looking at the impacts of climate ...

A dense Arctic bonebed shows marine life and ocean food webs recovered far faster than scientists once believed after mass ...

Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer than the rings of Saturn, and longer than most of the other life on ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

These ancient arthropods were thriving hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs, and they kept their design through every mass extinction that followed. A hard shell, a body plan that worked, ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

A fire-bellied newt (Cynops ensicauda) on Amami Island in Japan. Previously thought to be extinct, the newt and others in its genera are still alive. (John J. Wiens/University of Arizona) (CN) — For ...

LOS ANGELES — Recently, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that mankind has a dozen years left before irreversible, calamitous climate change sets in made waves on social ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...