The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience ...

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, more than 15,000 years ago. The ...

Projects, by both Colossal and other groups, are underway around the world to help endangered species develop disease resistance or evolve to tolerate a warmer world. Other projects use gene editing ...

The Ocean is in deep crisis. Factors such as acidification, declining fish stocks, rising temperatures and widespread ...

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

Douglas McIntyre and David Callaway, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, discuss the alarming prediction that human ...

Gene editing holds the potential of suppressing mosquito species that carry deadly diseases — and raises ethical questions.

Putting an end to a mass extinction sounds like an impossible task, but some researchers argue that doing so would be setting ...

They're surprisingly fuzzy. Each wing looks like a mini-masterpiece of stained-glass art, in orange, black, and white.

The Ocean is in deep crisis. Factors such as acidification, declining fish stocks, rising temperatures and widespread pollution are contributing to a catastrophic decline in biodiversity: over half of ...

It focuses on creatures such as the woolly mammoth, which roamed the Earth after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

If you're an animal living through a mass extinction, it's best to be one that's found a unique way to make a living.A new analysis of the species ...