By Sean Mowbray Teetering on the brink of extinction, Indonesia’s Javan green magpie may have a conservation lifeline after ...

When you think of rats, you think of relatively small rodents. These dimensions did not apply to the white-footed rabbit rat ...

More than 2,300 plant and animal species are listed under the Endangered Species Act. A Dallas-based "de-extinction" company ...

Climate warming is triggering a steady increase in the mean thermal optimum of plant communities. We show that this increase reflects the dieback of cold-adapted species rather than the arrival of ...

Scientists have created detailed 3D models of a vaquita skeleton, digitally preserving one of the world’s most endangered ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on something scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction. There have been five great die-offs in the history of our planet, when at ...

Humans have long tinkered with the evolutionary trajectories of other species. Thousands of years ago we tamed wolves into dogs and transformed a wild grass into the agricultural wonder wheat. Within ...

The Permian period began 299 million years ago at the end of the Paleozoic Era. A collision of continents had created one single supercontinent, Pangea, that extended from pole to pole. The enormous ...