Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist.

Few know that avocados nearly disappeared from the Earth long ago. Their survival is tied to a turn in natural history and an ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

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

A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

Whether it was a global pandemic, a planet-wide volcanic event or a gigantic space rock, we reached the end of the line for our species. Every single human on Earth is gone. For good. While there’s no ...

An extinct race in One Piece is not uncommon, even in a world full of fish-men and giants. Some races have almost disappeared ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

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

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Human beings are considered the highest embodiment of intelligence, but there are some animals blessed by nature that are ...