As human beings have grown wealthier, they have come to care about environmental stewardship and gained the resources to act on their newfound compassion for wildlife.

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...

Efforts to “save species” with object detection models are not without controversy.

Wolf conservationists say the truly dire matter is protecting America’s wild gray wolves — but that’s not as cute and cuddly ...

When daily newspapers and mainline Protestant denominations and Elks Lodges fade into irrelevance, when sit-down restaurants and shopping malls and colleges begin to trace the same descending arc, ...

The spurious idea of 'de-extinction' offers us the illusion of undoing one of the great catastrophes of our own era ...

For years, we thought a giant comet object smacked into Earth 66 million years ago, signing the collective death certificate ...

Discover how crocodiles survived two mass extinctions thanks to their flexible diets and habitats, according to research.

My childhood growing up in Pacific Grove, California was blessed with the kind of exposure to and immersion in nature that all kids deserve. We ...

Researchers examined teeth and skulls of 99 extinct crocodylomorph species and 20 living crocodylian species to reconstruct their dietary ecology and identify characteristics that helped some groups ...

The secret to their longevity could help conservationists better protect species today threatened by extinction.