Each year on March 3, World Wildlife Day draws global attention to the plants and animals that make life on Earth possible.

The end-Permian extinction 252 million years ago wiped out over 80 per cent of marine species, but many ecosystems still had ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are nowhere to be found. From human activity to climate change, new animals ...

A dozen fish pulled from a South African river sparked years of debate before being confirmed as a new species.

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

There’s enough gloomy wildlife news out there, so here’s a refreshing shift: some animals have pulled off impressive comebacks. Thanks to decades of conservation work and global cooperation, several ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

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 Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as the ethical questions are thorny.