Roman Uchytel is a Ukrainian paleontologist and graphic designer who recreates prehistoric fauna, providing an interesting scale comparison of our ancestors' features. He contrasts the sizes of ...

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 ...

Why do beaches today have seashells from clams and snails instead of brachiopods? A new study suggests the answer lies in ...

This is the only surviving head of a dodo. It has been extinct for over 344 years — and this is all that remains. The Oxford ...

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 ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the “sixth mass extinction” – the first to be caused by ...

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