Scientists are warning that the next mass extinction event could be underway as species vanish at alarming rates due to ...

When I sat down at my desk this morning I never expected to hear an anecdote about octopuses that would blow my mind. It came from speaking to Colin Butfield, the co-founder and director of Open ...

Cretaceous climate crisis with extreme heat and ocean anoxia led to the extinction of powerful marine predators.

In an East Village gallery, K Allado-McDowell has created an audiovisual tribute to species we have lost as a rehearsal for a ...

The ancestors of today’s crocodylians survived two mass extinction events. A new study has revealed a key factor behind their ...

The sudden heat altered oceans’ chemical composition, which affected some top aquatic reptilian predators more than some ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans ...

U.S. senators from Washington, Oregon and California point to ripple effects still to come as their states’ ports start to ...

Nor are they proxies of the dire wolf,” the members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Canid Specialist ...

The eaglets were found stranded in the Fannie Stebbins Memorial Wildlife Refuge in Longmeadow, Mass., on Tuesday, April 29 ...

In his new book "Hope Dies Last," award-winning environmental journalist Alan Weisman shares the four existential threats ...

Protection by the state could prove critical as the Trump administration proposes new rules to weaken the federal Endangered ...