Indeed, recent studies have indicated that the humble honey bee possesses a remarkable talent for mathematics and can even ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

It had quite an impact — striking with the force of 10 million atomic bombs. Sixty-six million years ago, the asteroid that slammed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula caused a mass extinction ...

Tribal officials said they’re “ready to welcome them back” to habitat the birds haven’t inhabited since the 1800s.

Extinction rates appear to have slowed since their peak in the early 1900s, suggesting not a reprieve for nature but a shift in how and where losses occur. Much of the damage was concentrated on ...

That striking notion of humanity grasping the finality of life before understanding its unfolding appears in “Zetsumetsu no Hakken” (The discovery of extinction) co-authored by Japanese paleontologist ...

Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...

A newly described dinosaur that appears to have persisted beyond a catastrophic die-off is forcing scientists to rethink how mass extinctions actually play out on the ground. Instead of a clean break ...

Tardigrades are survivors. For more than 500 million years, the microscopic “water bears” have spread all over the planet and endured some of the harshest conditions Earth has to offer. Now a new ...

A mass sea urchin die-off has pushed Canary Islands populations to historic lows, with scientists warning of long-term reef ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights into how the animals may fare in the future Jack Tamisiea A colony of ...