Ultimately, the extinction of humans "would reveal something about the way we treated the Earth," said Basmajian. "It would ...

New fossil studies reveal that ancient predators like saber-toothed cats vanished rapidly after their primary prey species declined.

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

A first-of-its-kind study traces the rise of ant- and termite-eaters, revealing how mammals returned to the evolutionary table — at least a dozen times — to hone traits for feasting on the social ...

In two new studies, researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, have shed ...

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

The oceans have always been alive with mystery, beauty, and change. For the first time, scientists have measured how much ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...