The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

The contents of an ancient wolf pup's stomach yields surprising clues into the genetic lineage of extinct species.

Studying how ancient animals lived and why they died out can offer important insight to protecting species today.

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

A group of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales were spotted off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Saturday. The Center for Coastal Studies observed 33 out of 384 whales that ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...