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

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 ...

Each year on March 3, World Wildlife Day draws global attention to the plants and animals that make life on Earth possible.

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

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

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

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are nowhere to be found. From human activity to climate change, new animals ...

As the Atlantic warms, many fish along the east coast of North America have moved northward to keep within their preferred temperature range. Black sea bass, for instance, have shifted hundreds of ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

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