But earlier this month, researchers announced something overwhelmingly positive: Green sea turtles, the iconic marine species ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data.

Massive birds whose loud wingbeats and rollicking cries resound through tropical rainforests, African hornbills were a common ...

For years, headlines have warned that Earth is entering its sixth mass extinction, but a new study suggests these fears may ...

Mass extinction sounds scary, but it’s basically nature’s biggest reset button. Throughout Earth’s history, there have been five major events where huge numbers of species disappeared quickly, and ...

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

There are over 150,000 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. Of those species, over 42,000 are threatened with extinction. On that list are 17,903 marine species that ...

Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for their meat, according to a new study.

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 ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...

With much controversy swirling around Colossal's proxy dire wolves, we spoke with the company's CEO to find out how these animals were created and what so-called de-extinction technology could mean ...

These adorable Pacific Northwest marmots need Endangered Species Act protections because not even the mighty Olympic ...