Scientists believed the tiny Cozumel fox had vanished from the planet, with nothing left but ancient bone fragments to prove ...

The Trump administration reversed decades of longstanding environmental law protecting endangered species on Friday, opening ...

The Trump administration rolled back the Endangered Species Act on Friday, slashing protections to the habitats of endangered ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

The fins of the guitarfish are sold for hundreds of dollars in Asian markets to make soup, a trade pushing them toward ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth’s oceans became a lethal test of animal physiology. Nearly every marine species vanished, ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record is formed. They investigated how dinosaur and mammal bones are ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

A Stanford-led study has provided the strongest evidence yet that warming oceans and declining oxygen levels caused Earth's ...