The fins of the guitarfish are sold for hundreds of dollars in Asian markets to make soup, a trade pushing them toward ...

Scientists say the "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out.

Earth's worst mass extinctions occurred when environmental change outpaced evolution, revealing a pattern spanning 450 ...

A late Neanderthal group in Belgium and France stayed genetically healthy, with no inbreeding signs, just before vanishing.

Scientists have digitally preserved the world’s most endangered marine mammal by creating highly detailed 3D models of a ...

Imagine returning to a favorite hiking trail 15 years after your first visit and discovering that many of the plants and ...

A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants ...

A University of St Andrews-led study found that species declining locally are more likely to face higher global extinction ...

If — when? — the African elephant goes extinct in an estimated two decades, there will be mourning and memory and tribute. People will post photos of themselves at the circus as kids. They'll mimic ...

When you think of rats, you think of relatively small rodents. These dimensions did not apply to the white-footed rabbit rat ...