Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

From the vanishing of 10 billion snow crabs in Alaska's Bering Sea to the first mammal officially declared extinct due to ...

Putting an end to a mass extinction sounds like an impossible task, but some researchers argue that doing so would be setting ...

To satisfy the seafood needs of billions of people, offering them access to a more biodiverse array of fish creates ...

On May 22, the world celebrated the International Day for Biological Diversity, at a time when the disappearance of species ...

Due to their size and abundance, these creatures shaped the ecosystems in which they lived – but today all are nearly gone ...

Study by UChicago, Smithsonian, UK Natural History Museum challenges assumptions about survival after global catastrophe ...

Researchers from the University of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution and London’s Natural History Museum analysed fossil ...

"The more those animal populations are pushed toward extinction, the more the people involved will suffer." Authorities ...

This year’s observance will be marked under the theme Harmony with Nature and Sustainable Development, which highlights the connection between this initiative and the Sustainable Development Goals ...