The planet is seeing a decline in biodiversity, but extinctions are relatively rare and don’t meet the threshold for a sixth ...

Mass extinction events often result in the majority of species on earth disappearing. Is the planet in the throes of another event, according to scientists?

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The most famous of these mass extinction events — when an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, ...

(CN) — For the past few decades scientists and biodiversity experts have sounded the alarm on what has been called the “the ...

New research shows that while many species have disappeared, extinctions of genera are very rare across plants and animals.

A new analysis suggests that recent extinctions have been rare, limited mostly to islands and slowing. But others argue this is all just semantics.

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: seated in front of the computer monitor at Mt. Lemmon Observatory near Tucson, ...

For most of human history, extinction has been understood as an immutable fact of nature—a one-way door that, once closed, could never be reopened. Species ...

Southern Cross University has successfully made the first-ever release of captively reared mountain frogs in a remote area of ...

Numerous experts point out that fire "is a natural factor that has always existed" and can also help with forest management: ...

With much controversy swirling around Colossal's proxy dire wolves, we spoke with the company's CEO to find out how these animals were created and what so-called de-extinction technology could ...

In primary school, we learned that pollinators jump from flower to flower and help plants reproduce, giving us a myriad of vegetables, flowers and fruits. We learned that a pollinator can be a bee, a ...