In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their ...

Scientists have long treated mass extinctions as events locked deep in the fossil record. That framing now feels less distant ...

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...

Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Migratory land mammals roam annually over large swaths of landscape to obtain seasonally available resources. For example, ...

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. - North Atlantic right whales were spotted off the coast of Brevard near Canova Park on Wednesday. There ...