Some residents along the Gulf Coast are creating habitat for the endangered birds on their properties, but development, ...

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

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

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within.

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, ...

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

Ancient DNA has been pulled from a permafrost-preserved woolly mammoth found in Siberia, and scientists are thrilled. They ...

The Brevard Zoo announced it is now home to two black-and-white Colobus monkeys. This species of primate is classified as ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

Marvel's SHIELD keeps a close eye on seven of the biggest dangers to Earth, all of which have already threatened the world ...

High Desert musicians mourn the loss of Extinction Burst, the most promising record label in the area that announced its ...