In the Mesozoic Era, there are fossils that represent both extinct groups and modern groups of animals and plants. During the first period of the Mesozoic Era (Triassic Period), many new types of ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species is the world’s most comprehensive list on the global extinction risk of animal, fungus, and plant species.

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

Many native plants are missing from habitats where they should thrive – even in wilder areas. Why? Human actions such as ...

Is mercury pollution a real threat to penguins? Here's what scientists have discovered and what mercury is doing to these ...

Recent winter estimates count more than 750 wild gray wolves in Michigan, almost 3,000 in Minnesota and just over 1,000 in Wisconsin. Some of those wolves may occasionally travel to Illinois, where ...

Imagine waking up one morning to a world where birds no longer sing, forests stand eerily silent, and rivers run devoid of ...

For billions of years, animals and plants have adapted to the conditions ... Others, for whatever reason, died and became extinct. But now humans are involved in every aspect of the life cycle ...

Colossal’s website spells out 10 steps for mammoth resurrection. Steps nine and 10 are: “implant the early embryo into the ...

Resurrecting extinct animals is both “exhilarating ... Domestication, from dogs and cats to farm animals to the diversity of crop plants that we rely on for food, to bottle gourds that our ...

finding that about 68 percent of evaluated plant species are threatened with extinction. Unlike animals, plants can't readily move as their habitat is destroyed, making them particularly vulnerable to ...