The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

NANJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Scientists in China have unearthed a treasure trove of ancient fossils that is helping to rewrite the story of one of Earth's earliest and least-understood catastrophes: ...

As climate change poses an increasingly dominant threat to certain life forms on Earth, environmentally concerned individuals ...

The rapidity of animal species extinction is a grave concern, currently occurring at a rate 35 times faster than anticipated. This alarming increase is largely due to human intervention, a critical ...

Protecting animals against environmental changes, poachers, and other dangers is vital yet challenging work. And in recent years, things have seemed dismal. The International Union for Conservation of ...

In a secret location in the United States, two white wolves are lounging in the grass in a sunny, roughly one-acre enclosure. It’s early spring and a chill wind blows through bare trees nearby. The ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

Wildlife Africa is intensifying campaign against animal extinction through public awareness as it partners Nela Duke Ekpenyong to further sensitse the public on the importance in keeping these animals ...

The dodo, the passenger pigeon and the Tasmanian tiger are well-known victims of extinction caused by human behaviour, but could their status be used to help conservation efforts from beyond the grave ...