By Shanna Hanbury March 20 marks World Rewilding Day. Established just four years ago by the Global Rewilding Alliance, the ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth.

Rapid Species Decline Climate change is causing a dramatic decline in species across the globe. Scientists estimate that the ...

The fastest shark in the sea is losing the race against extinction. Capable of reaching speeds of up to 45 miles per hour, ...

A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural world continues to face a biodiversity crisis, targeted conservation efforts are helping bring many species back from the ...

National Panda Day highlights global conservation efforts to protect pandas from habitat loss and possible extinction.

A joint research team from China and abroad has for the first time found that mammaliaforms from the Jurassic and Cretaceous ...

Yet "more than a quarter (28 percent) of zoogeomorphic species are vulnerable to future population decline or regional or ...

Few people could write so genially, even humorously, about our existential crisis. Henry Gee can, in his excellent new book ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

This destabilized the climate and the carbon cycle, leading to dramatic global warming, deoxygenated oceans, and mass extinction. However, many plants survived, leaving behind fossils which scientists ...

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.