Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

Earlier this year, Gilbert’s team published a study about its attempt to recover the genome of the Christmas Island rat, which went extinct in the early 20th century, by using the genome of the ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago. Learning why could provide crucial evidence about prehistoric ecosystems ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

Megafauna, such as woolly mammoths, moas, and giant sloths, went extinct some 50,000 to 10,000 years ago, leaving behind few fossilized remains. Pulling DNA to identify these animals from those ...

From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago. Learning why could provide crucial evidence about prehistoric ecosystems and help us understand future potential ...

CARLI PETERS: So many of these animals went extinct during the late quaternary, which is the period before the one we live in now. So basically, they went extinct around 50,000 years ago. And they ...

Calamites eventually went extinct as the climate of the Earth changed and also because of the decline of swamp forest that marked the end of these plants in Earth’s history. Source: Wikipedia ...

I t is commonly said that dodos were the first animal to go extinct at the hands of humans after we hunted them into oblivion in the 1600s, but this isn't really true. For starters, humans had ...