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

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

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?

Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth within 100 years. But first, the population would shrink as older folks died ...

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

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

Fossilized footprints of Homo heidelbergensis located in Lower Saxony are the oldest known footprints in Germany—an ...

Seeds in Madagascar's forests are getting smaller, and new research suggests that human activities are playing a role in this ...