Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack ...

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

Scientists debate whether current extinction rates mark a planet-wide crisis or reflect a more nuanced reality, highlighting ...

Feedback isn't entirely convinced by a new piece of research that claims by 2339 "there will be no humans", even though the ...

Human activity may be setting the stage for the largest extinction event since the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 ...

The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky says that what A.I. wants most is not for humanity to live “happily ever after.” “What the ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

A fossil skull from a long-extinct animal captivated the public when it went on display at the South Australian Museum.

Local author Tim Weed's fascinating new book, "The Afterlife Project" is a work of speculative fiction that features a ...

The slowly rising numbers come after a decade of population declines. But threats including entanglement in fishing gear, ...

The newly identified Bolitoglossa chirripoensis, a golden-spotted salamander unique to Costa Rica's Chirripó National Park ...