A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

A wide range of mammal species are adversely affected, including both endemic (those only found in southern Africa) and ...

Despite education about rhinos, they continue to be hunted around the world for one simple reason: their horns. With just ...

The Andean condor has been threatened with extinction for decades. At one time, the condor was considered extinct in ...

Warming temperatures are forcing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier and that's a big problem for two of the cute tuxedoed ...

Levels of molybdenum in soil show that hydrogen sulfide gas wiped out nearly half of all marine life 530 million years ago.

A group of German scientists tested the effects of a more acidic ocean on sharks' teeth and found that future generations of ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

Museum scientists have identified and described an extinct rhinoceros species from Canada’s High Arctic. Researchers at the ...

A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna ...