Dozens of Australian mammal species have declined and gone extinct since European colonisation – and introduced predators are ...

Some question whether the pups are really dire wolves, or just genetically tweaked gray wolves. But the technology could be used to help at-risk animals.

Dozens of amphibians perished together on an ancient floodplain around 230 million years ago, according to a new study.

Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of the dinosaurs.

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

A bitter struggle for control of a professional association is proving that diversity, equity and inclusion remains a ...

Researchers from the U.S. have found out that dozens of amphibians, as large as today’s alligators, met a shared fate in a ...

For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...

In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, and the movement to learn it is growing. Ingrid Gaup braids dried "shoe ...

After the end-Permian mass extinction, certain species thrived in warmer, oxygen-depleted waters, spreading globally. This ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...