Protecting animals against environmental changes, poachers, and other dangers is vital yet challenging work. And in recent ...

Mountaintops host some of the world's most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these habitats into ...

A petition to prevent Drumheller's famous dinosaur Tyra from going extinct has now garnered more than 20,000 signatures.

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

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 ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Sometimes it is hard to know which planet the fossil fuel industry inhabits. BP has tried to “go green” on at least two occasions over the past two decades, but each time it has ditched the commitment ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

Nearly a third of species of fungi assessed by an international conservation group are at risk of extinction from threats ...