Ben Rivers discusses the making of Mare’s Nest, reaching out to Don DeLillo and staging his play the Mare’s Nest and ...

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The Oakland Zoo released its 1,000th yellow-legged frog into California's wilderness this week, marking a milestone for ...

One day in August, 1875, a greyish-blue parrot was shot on a small island in the Indian Ocean near Mauritius. It was the last time a Rodrigues parakeet was known to be seen alive.

These tough little plants have survived since mammoths roamed the Pacific Northwest, but habitat destruction by people has ...

Extinction is tragic, but erasing a species’ history is a different kind of loss — one that undermines both our understanding of biodiversity and our ability to learn from the past ...

Remarkable new fossil discoveries in New Zealand are driving a significant reassessment of our understanding of the early ...

More than 250 million years ago, life on Earth faced its most devastating crisis — a global event so severe that it wiped out ...

Fossils from Tanzania and Zambia reveal thriving ecosystems before Earth's worst extinction, reshaping our view of the late Permian world.

These tough little plants have survived since mammoths roamed the Pacific Northwest, but habitat destruction by people has ...

For virtually all of those 50 years, those who want to destroy the dams have predicted they would cause the extinction of ...

In the shallows of Raja Ampat, Indonesia, a bold conservation experiment is underway—one that blends marine biology, local ...