Idaho residents may have a glimpse of the past when they look to the skies thanks to a partnership between a local tribe and a “de-extinction” company that plans to reintroduce a species that hasn’t ...

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

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 ...

That analysis considered not just rabies, but all human deaths related to the loss of vultures — including those from water contaminated by cattle carcasses. Researchers estimated that India suffered, ...

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 ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

Shocking research has warned that humans are driving extinctions at a scale not seen since the mass extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. The researchers from the University of York, ...

Scientists are constantly discovering the fossils of mysterious and fascinating ancient creatures. Researchers have recently published details of one such discovery. It is a very interesting ...

Could we be on the verge of the sixth mass extinction? To better understand what’s to come for life on Earth–and the current harm we’re doing to our own environment–we have to look into the past. But, ...

Kenneth Lacovara, Ph.D., has spent years traveling the world looking for fossils and the extinction layer–a sediment layer covering the world that signifies the end of the Cretaceous period that ...