We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

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

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

Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For ...

While it is always a shame to see more animals go extinct, the report did include some good news. The IUCN noted that the ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

Arian Wallach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Erick Lundgren receives funding from the Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Alberta ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

Researchers at the University of Memphis used a free app to rediscover a species of beetle that was thought to be extinct.