Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact ...

Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had “resurrected” the dire wolf, a ...

Chester Zoo, in the UK, has announced that it has received scientific confirmation that an “extinct” snail has been saved ...

Learn how social connections may influence extinction risk in some wildlife species.

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, and shallow seas shrank fast.

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

Researchers found that as many as 80% of island snail species have gone extinct.

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Extinction Archive: Kulpreet Singh presents haunting memorial to vanishing species at India Art Fair ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.