University of Cambridge researchers have developed a new way to measure the impact of our food production on other species' ...

New Zealand is turning to artificial intelligence to find new ways to protect incredibly rare species of birds that were once ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is leading efforts to ensure the repopulation of one of North Carolina's most endangered ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

The history of the Earth spans about 4.5 billion years, during which countless creatures have appeared and gone extinct thanks to evolution. The only evidence we have that they existed is their ...

For almost 200 years, no one knew where the last living great auks were. Using DNA testing, one of them was found in ...

Researchers have described a whole new family of extinct crocodyliforms based on the fossilized remains of a single teenage croc named Elton discovered in the Blackleaf Formation.

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

How did these different dinosaur species interact? Did they hunt different prey? What did T. rex adolescence really look like ...

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 recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for their meat, according to a new study.