For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and triggered global biodiversity loss. A new study suggests that at least two o ...

Dire wolves became extinct over 10,000 years ago. Scientists believe this was the result of climate change and the loss of ...

Mountaintops host some of the world's most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these habitats into ...

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With 63% of Ireland's birds at risk of extinction, an Irish ornithologist is utilising recordings he is making to advocate for their preservation. Human activities are causing the world to heat up ...

“And that’s how it all started.” This choice helped spark a decades-long movement to revive a language at the edge of extinction. For the Sámi, language is more than communication—it’s ...

A new report co-authored by a Canadian researcher warns that more than one-fifth of pollinator species it studied in North America are at risk of extinction. Out of 759 pollinators — animals critical ...