More than 35 species of falcons roam the Earth’s skies at present. But there used to be at least three others. Here’s the story of the confirmed falcon species lost to the world forever.

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

The discovery of Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a dog-size "runner" dinosaur, has left researchers re-evaluating Nanosaurus ...

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

But after the animals were returned to a refuge in central Oman in 1982, almost all were wiped out by poachers. “We had the animals, and we put them back, and the world wasn’t ready,” says Pimm.

The Earth’s historical past was home to some of the most massive and terrifying creatures that reigned as the topmost frightening predators of the land, some of which reached sizes and developed ...

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 ...

Neanderthals went extinct Our species, Homo sapiens , has been around for at least 200,000 years. That's a long time, but like all animals on Earth we are at risk of becoming extinct.

Dominic Price, Species Recovery Trust director, said: “We believe the New Forest cicada probably went extinct because of changes to the way land was managed, but we have worked with Forestry ...

The Glyptodonts lived primarily in South America until they went extinct about 10 thousand years ago due to climate change and human hunting. Glyptos from the Ice Age movie are Sal, Eddie, Stu, and ..

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 ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...