A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as ...

As more species disappear from the planet, it is a stark reminder that conservation efforts are not doing enough. A new study ...

The end-Permian extinction 252 million years ago wiped out over 80 per cent of marine species, but many ecosystems still had ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...

Nearly one in three freshwater fish species now faces possible extinction, a statistic that reflects mounting pressure on ...

It’s been 17 years since the bright yellow Panamanian golden frog ( Atelopus zeteki) hopped through its native habitat. But ...

University of Queensland researchers say Australia's reptiles are at risk of extinction because a little understood fungus is ...

The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass extinction.