Unfortunately, as the world changes, some animals just can’t evolve quickly enough to make it, and they go extinct. This has ...

Now, evidence suggests that some of these spiral-shaped species did manage to persist after all. Recent analysis of ammonite ...

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 ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

During the Early-Middle Devonian period, a large landmass called Gondwana—which included parts of today's Africa, South America, and Antarctica—was located near the South Pole. Unlike today's icy ...

Far below the Pacific, a volcano long written off as geologically dead has turned out to be both active and teeming with life ...

Researchers captured the novel behavior on video in the Gulf of California, recording three separate takedowns across two hunts carried out by members of the Moctezuma pod Their fur is so soft it ...