A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...
Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind ...
In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...
Dire wolves were massive and highly intelligent animals nearly the size of a small horse, capable of ripping a man’s arm off as easily as a dog kills a rat. They lived in cold regions in a place ...
Why do beaches today have seashells from clams and snails instead of brachiopods? A new study suggests the answer lies in ...
Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the “sixth mass extinction” – the first to be caused by ...
Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...
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 ...
Two Guam kingfisher chicks that hatched at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh are part of a program to help restore the bird ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. the tarsier is a very peculiar small animal.in fact it is one of the smallest known primates, no larger than an adult men's hand.© ...
Sixty-six million years ago, Earth's balance shifted in a single strike. The asteroid impact set off firestorms, blocked out sunlight, and left food chains in collapse. Dinosaurs and countless other ...