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

How did the woolly mammoth, an ambassador of the Ice Age, end up confined to modern-day Wrangel Island? And what ultimately caused their extinction? New evidence suggests it wasn’t poor genetics as ...

Many types of plant, animal, and mammal species globally are at risk of extinction. Over 1 million species are threatened with extinction within the next few decades—an unprecedented rate, according ...

The Secretary General of the United Nations kicked off the 15th Conference on Biodiversity (COP 15) with statements to protect Earth and save nature. Here’s what Antonio Guterres said. What Happened: ...

The end-Triassic extinction, which happened 201 million years ago, was Earth’s third most severe extinction event since the dawn of animal life. Like today, CO 2 rise and global warming were present, ...

Great auks (Pinguinus impennis) were large flightless birds that thrived on rocky islands in the North Atlantic for thousands of years. However, humans hunted them to extinction within just a few ...