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 ...

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

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

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

Do you think you know which species are most vulnerable in an ecosystem? A novel analytical method developed by Italian ...

The 12-foot bird roamed the country for 4,000 years until they became extinct about 600 years ago, mainly because of ...

A $15 million federal grant was supposed to help scientists better understand how the warming climate is harming plants and animals, setting many on paths toward extinction. But the Trump ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

However, some lab groups and individuals hope to “bring back” extinct animals—including mammals, birds and amphibians—by modifying the genome of an existing species so the animal resembles ...

If we can only recover fragments of an extinct creature's genome—and must build the rest with modern substitutes—is that really de-extinction, or are we simply creating lookalikes?