Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

There’s enough gloomy wildlife news out there, so here’s a refreshing shift: some animals have pulled off impressive ...

The coastal marten is about the size of a ferret and lives in heavily wooded forests.

Across the globe, a small number of animal species are now so rare that only a few individuals remain in the wild. Habitat ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Sometimes an animal long thought to be extinct reappears decades or centuries later, shocking scientists! Join Hank Green for a look at seven species that we thought were gone forever... but are back ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

While the birth is sparking joy, infant mountain gorillas are vulnerable, and twins can be twice as hard for a mother to take ...