The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

For a long time, the prevailing theory was that dinosaurs were already in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth ...

As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

A new study on African penguins links food shortages and fishing to adult survival losses, raising the risk of extinction.

Irrawaddy dolphins are rapidly disappearing across Asia. Scientists warn that fishing nets, pollution and habitat loss are ...

Whether a species has just freshly emerged, or it has been around for millions of years does not dictate its vulnerability.

A new research forecast has revealed when thousands of glaciers around the world will collapse as a result of climate change.

A dense Arctic bonebed shows marine life and ocean food webs recovered far faster than scientists once believed after mass ...