A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today's South Africa. In less than a ...

Extinction can be a hard reality to confront. It’s one thing to learn about animals like the woolly mammoth or the dodo, ...

Habitat fragmentation can decrease biodiversity by up to 75% within an ecosystem. As species are forced to live in a fraction ...

For decades, headlines have warned about endangered species being on the brink of disappearing from the world forever. Sadly, many animals appeared to suffer that fate. However, a newly announced ...

Extinction has always been considered permanent. But advances in genetic science are beginning to challenge that idea. By ...

Critically endangered Māui dolphins cannot afford losses; learn how scientists study carcasses to protect every living animal ...

For the first time, Colossal BioSciences unveiled its Dallas labs where it is spending millions of dollars researching how to ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability, leading to the loss of a majority of animals present ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

Even when animals are never introduced into the wild, placing them under human care can still improve the lives of their wild ...