Fossil of an extinct Phorusrhacid "terror bird" in the Tatacoa Desert reveals insights into ancient predators and ecosystems.

If you thought Australia’s spiders were scary, wait until you see the prehistoric version. Scientists have found a fossilised ...

A clay pit in Germany has uncovered the remains of a second ape species, which is now considered to be the smallest to have ever lived.

Nearly all the trees died. Looy had told me that the Black Triangle was the best place today to see what the world would have looked like after the Permian extinction. This didn't look like ...

Researchers in Australia and the US are embarking on a multi-million dollar project to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction. The last known one, officially called a thylacine ...

It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan melvillei, a large predatory whale from the Miocene epoch. After the extinction of dinosaurs came the age of mammals.

In the case of mammals, the best-studied group of animals, the fossil record indicates that the “background” rate of extinction, the one that prevailed before humans entered the picture ...

The genome of the extinct thylacine has been nearly completely sequenced, de-extinction company Colossal has announced. It says the genome is more than 99.9 per cent complete, with just 45 gaps ...

This asteroid impact caused a global mass extinction but also created ideal ... The True Global Impact of Species-Loss Caused by Humans Is Far Greater Than Expected Oct. 3, 2024 — The extinction ...

More than a third of all tree species worldwide face extinction, threatening ecosystems, plants, animals and economies around the world, experts warned Monday. In all, 38% of trees are at risk ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimated that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction.