The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

Tim Coulson, a professor at Oxford University, has dedicated years to researching how life evolves. He thinks that if we vanished, it would create space for ...

The Trump administration has delayed protections.

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...