For decades, we’ve heard warnings that humanity is teetering on the edge of a new “mass extinction.” But a new study paints a ...

Yet Buckland, Anning, and other specialists who studied plesiosaur fossils in the early 19th century knew precisely what they ...

Elon Musk believes the collapsing birth rate is humanity's biggest danger. But antinatalists argue having kids is little more than a procreational Ponzi scheme, and the risks are real.

A spate of poisoning events this year has killed more than 400 vultures in and near South Africa’s Kruger National Park. In ...

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OH7 - an individual who would have inhabited an ancient wetland environment, received his first death blow when the croc tore ...

New Zealand is planning to eradicate millions of invasive animals that prey on the country's rare birds. The goal may not be ...

Delusion, dying, grief — and whether to view the passage of time as a journey of change or of loss — are among the themes ...

Cloned and genetically modified animals are jumping the lab and entering the black market, possibly forever altering our ecosystems.

Now that AI is rapidly advancing, some “AI Doomers” say it’s time to hit the brakes. They say the machine learning revolution ...

A tiny mammal that faces local extinction was reintroduced to the rivers of southern England. Screengrab from the National Trust’s Facebook post When many think of extinction, they imagine the massive ...