It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

While not an animal, its endurance through major extinction events, including the late Devonian and the end-Permian, earns it a mention. Ginkgo’s resilience is attributed to its disease resistance and ...

via Wikimedia Commons Living during the Late Devonian period, around 358-382 million years ago, Dunkleosteus was an armored fish measuring up to 33 feet, known for its powerful jaws. Its extinction ...

I write today to urge a strengthening of support by Cornell University for the Paleontological Research Institution on Trumansburg Rd. in Ithaca. I have visited and delivered lectures at both ...

Founder and Executive director of the Edelman Fossil Park of Rowan University Paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's questions about the phenomenon of extinction. ...

Getty A small marsupial species has been saved from near-extinction thanks to the ongoing work of a conservation group. The brush-tailed bettong, which resembles a tiny kangaroo and similarly ...

I want to offer you a different lens through which to better understand the climatological and environmental crises that we-indeed all of humanity-are facing. I would like you to view these crises ...

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the humpback whale population has recovered extensively over the past half a century. In 1960, numbers were estimated at around 5,000 animals. Today ...

Lucas Atwell CC BY-SA 3.0 Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass ...

The number of Australian animals, plants and unique ecological communities officially recognised as being in danger of extinction rose to 2,142 last year. Australia has one of the world's highest ...

A recent study published in the journal Nature warns that nearly a quarter of freshwater species face extinction. Thousands of fish, crab, and dragonfly species could disappear in the coming decades ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Extinctions sometimes strangely entwine – like the ancient Maugean skate ray, of which it is estimated fewer than 120 remain and ...