Two of the world’s rarest lions have arrived at a UK zoo as part of a breeding program to help save the highly endangered big ...

Despite massive investments in compute resources, advanced optimization techniques, and experimental architectures, all ...

The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in ...

A new study finds that , amid ongoing climate change, extinction rates have slowed, currently being at their lowest levels in ...

We made three attempts to capture a jaguar after arriving at Fazenda Bodoquena in Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul state, on a ...

Rising global temperatures are changing the rules for survival—and reproduction—for many species. A new study from Saint ...

For the vast majority of human existence, extinction has been a one-way process. If a species has gone extinct, the species is forever lost to the world, until now. Thanks to advances in genetics, ...

Extinction rates appear to have slowed since their peak in the early 1900s, suggesting not a reprieve for nature but a shift in how and where losses occur. Much of the damage was concentrated on ...

The new trailer takes viewers into the Pleistocene era, millions of years after the extinction of the dinosaurs, as it has never been seen before. It features strange cycles of hot and cold that ...

Until recently, I assumed that the term “extinction burst” referred to the impact of the comet, asteroid or other catastrophic space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs. Turns out the expression ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...