Around 252 million years ago, Earth’s oceans became a lethal test of animal physiology. Nearly every marine species vanished, ...

Climate change threatens many plant and animal species not only when their habitats disappear as climatic conditions change, ...

Numbats, Western Australia's animal emblem, have been pulled from the brink of extinction after research found the population ...

Why do beaches today have seashells from clams and snails instead of brachiopods? A new study suggests the answer lies in ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

The rapidity of animal species extinction is a grave concern, currently occurring at a rate 35 times faster than anticipated. This alarming increase is largely due to human intervention, a critical ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

The change limits the reach of the 50-year-old Endangered Species Act so that the destruction of habitats will no longer be ...

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.

A photograph of an extinct animal evokes a greater feeling of loss than any painting ever could. Often black and white or tinted sepia, these remarkable images have been taken mainly in zoos or ...