The end of the Ordovician, in contrast, was kicked off by the Earth’s thermostat firmly flipping to “cold” – and much like ...

On a shrub-covered dune in San Francisco’s Presidio, biologist Durrell Kapan and a group of volunteers huddle around a tiny plastic condiment container placed delicately amid a cluster of ...

Scientists have taken a step closer to resurrecting the mammoth by engineering a 'wooly mouse' with DNA! Colossal Biosciences successfully modified eight genes, resulting in mice with woolly coats ...

But the outlook for software developers is more likely evolution than extinction, according to experienced software engineers, industry analysts and academics. For decades, better tools have ...

Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 billion years ago.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced at least 40 percent of tree species around the world are at risk of extinction, according to a Monday release from the ...

Daniel Field, professor of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Cambridge and co-author of the study, has been interested in understanding how the end-Cretaceous mass extinction affected the ...

The chart omits the rise in human-driven CO2 levels over the past 150 years and simplifies Earth’s climate history to provide a misleading account of current climate challenges. This article was ...

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of ...

The rare flower is found in the rainforests of Southeast Asia. LONDON -- Rafflesia, the flower species which contains some of the world’s largest flowers, is at risk of extinction, scientists ...