Earth has experienced five documented mass extinctions to date. With the sixth extinction around the corner, scientists are looking to the past to try and understand how life continues on after one of ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

More than 47,000 species face extinction today, a figure that grows daily as habitats shrink and human pressures intensify.

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stewart Edie, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) About 66 million years ago – ...

The findings suggest that sea cows have been engineering ecosystems in the Persian Gulf for tens of millions of years ...

In the last ten years, at least 15 species have officially checked out, never to be seen again. It's ironic to think how these creatures once roamed the planet with us, but now, they're just part of ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

We are on the cusp of losing the integrity of one of the most significant environmental acts ever enacted in the United States. Why should this matter? As the Pulitzer Prize-winning evolutionary ...

The scimitar-horned oryx has been brought back from extinction through captive breeding. Conservationists hope it could help ...