Exciting news on the extinction front emerged last week from Indonesia: An orangutan used a rope bridge strung high between trees by humans to cross above a public road. You might ...

Should scientists intervene when faced with the possible self-destruction of a species? That question sits at the heart of ...

A latest study utilizing advanced spatial modeling has revealed that neither climate change nor direct competition with early modern humans can fully explain the disappearance of Neanderthals from ...

For decades, scientists have been trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the extinction of Neanderthal, ancient humans, in ...

A poignant recounting of the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire, and how extinction is not necessarily inevitable but instead, is a political choice. One of the most famous and ...