Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

Across the globe, a small number of animal species are now so rare that only a few individuals remain in the wild. Habitat ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Inside the stomach of an ancient wolf puppy found entombed in Siberian permafrost, scientists discovered meat from a woolly ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...

The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, show that woolly rhinos remained "genetically healthy" ...

A group of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales were spotted off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on ...