A new anatomical study of the coelacanth reveals key errors in muscle maps, reshaping how scientists think breathing evolved ...

A global study finds over 3,500 animal species already threatened by climate change, with invertebrates and marine life most ...

Extinction is an overwhelming concept, difficult to grasp in its enormity and finality. Thousands of species are barreling ...

The largest-ever study of over 2.6 million zoo birth records reveals skewed sex ratios in endangered species, from lemurs to ...

For the last 10,000 years, thousands of species have perished from the Holocene extinction event, which is still ongoing.

Scientists from the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath have found that factors including mating systems and brood size could predict the ratio of males to females for animals bred ...

The mammal in question is the Falkland Islands wolf ( Dusicyon australis ), the first canid known to have been driven to ...

Traditionally, Indigenous peoples almost universally viewed thoroughly putrefied, maggot-infested animal foods as highly ...

Students and naturalists have been sneaking onto private land to extricate threatened native plants: “This is a war between ...

This desert-dwelling brown bear is critically endangered and found nowhere else on Earth but Mongolia’s Gobi Desert.

A once-thought-extinct species has made a remarkable comeback on Rábida Island in the Galápagos, thanks to a groundbreaking ...

Long before humans walked the planet, a massive creature ruled the forests and open plains of ancient Eurasia.