Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The most famous of these mass extinction events — when an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, ...

The reptiles had such an "immense" impact on the planet that their sudden exit led to wide-scale changes. The post How ...

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: seated in front of the computer monitor at Mt. Lemmon Observatory near Tucson, ...

(CN) — For the past few decades scientists and biodiversity experts have sounded the alarm on what has been called the “the ...

A new analysis suggests that recent extinctions have been rare, limited mostly to islands and slowing. But others argue this is all just semantics.

New research shows that while many species have disappeared, extinctions of genera are very rare across plants and animals.

The planet is seeing a decline in biodiversity, but extinctions are relatively rare and don’t meet the threshold for a sixth ...

There are over 150,000 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. Of those species, over 42,000 are threatened with extinction. On that list are 17,903 marine species that ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

With much controversy swirling around Colossal's proxy dire wolves, we spoke with the company's CEO to find out how these animals were created and what so-called de-extinction technology could mean ...

In primary school, we learned that pollinators jump from flower to flower and help plants reproduce, giving us a myriad of vegetables, flowers and fruits. We learned that a pollinator can be a bee, a ...

In 2021, a record 1,100 manatees died statewide, driven largely by seagrass loss. The following year a nonprofit group sued ...