A devastating ice age wiped out most marine life, yet new research reveals how this ancient disaster unexpectedly paved the ...

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

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

Quick Take Six animal species, including the slender-billed curlew and Christmas Island shrew, were confirmed extinct in 2025 ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

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

Migratory land mammals roam annually over large swaths of landscape to obtain seasonally available resources. For example, ...

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

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

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

Great whites are one of more than 20 Mediterranean shark species protected under international law, meaning it is illegal to ...