New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

With reports of 200 or more species going extinct each day, it can seem like an uphill battle to keep vulnerable populations ...

Roughly 234 million years ago, Earth’s continents were fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it was on the ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

The conservation value of de-extinction lies not in populating landscapes with proxy extinct animals, but in developing ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had “resurrected” the dire wolf, a ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. What happened next, in the direct aftermath ...

Scientists are rethinking extinction risk as studies reveal how shrinking populations disrupt social connections that many animals depend on.