The world around us is constantly changing, and with these changes come questions that challenge our understanding of life on ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

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

Deforestation, farming and climate-fueled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on ...

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

This inability to move can seal their fate, leading to extinction. Imagine a crowded elevator where everyone is trying to move to the top floor—some will get left behind. Global warming is ...

Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the composition of species communities is also changing. This is one of the ...

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

Targeted conservation actions are essential to prevent wildlife extinctions, but more efforts are needed to fully recover biodiversity, according to a new study. Targeted conservation actions are ...

Yet "more than a quarter (28 percent) of zoogeomorphic species are vulnerable to future population decline or regional or global extinction," the study's authors warned. Their research, published ...

To understand this extinction, I wanted first to get a sense ... CO2 is a greenhouse gas; it would have contributed to global warming that lasted millions of years." The short-term effects alone ...