The Trump administration reversed decades of longstanding environmental law protecting endangered species on Friday, opening ...

Habitat destruction strongest driver of species loss, with legislation keeping 99% of listed species from going extinct ...

Throughout history, some extinct animals have emerged as formidable hunters that roamed the Earth with unmatched ferocity, ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record is formed. They investigated how dinosaur and mammal bones are ...

Dire wolves were massive and highly intelligent animals nearly the size of a small horse, capable of ripping a man’s arm off as easily as a dog kills a rat. They lived in cold regions in a place ...

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

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...