In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

Human activity has accelerated extinction rates, raising concerns that we may be entering a sixth mass extinction.

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

Quick Take Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, died, underscoring extinction and the emotional toll on caretakers.

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

Irrawaddy dolphins are rapidly disappearing across Asia. Scientists warn that fishing nets, pollution and habitat loss are ...

A new study on African penguins links food shortages and fishing to adult survival losses, raising the risk of extinction.

For every bird that becomes a pampered internet star, countless others are snatched from the wild to feed the illegal global ...