Mastodon bones are rare discoveries, but Orange County, N.Y., has proved to be a national hotbed for these extraordinary ...

The southern residents are battling extinction, facing multiple threats, from lack of chinook salmon, their preferred food, to vessel noise that makes it harder to hunt and pollution in their food.

In these modern fables, human extinction is imagined in scientific terms, as the result of natural causes. But the fears they express are much older than science. The term apocalypse comes from an ...

The mandible belongs to an adult mastodon, an iconic species of North America that went extinct about 13,000 years ago. This jawbone is the first found in New York State in more than a decade. But why ...

To be considered active, a volcano must have erupted at some point during the Holocene, but dormant and extinct are a little harder to define. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, believes there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI could drive humanity to extinction within 30 years.

This hospital is ground zero of a grim chlamydia epidemic which is killing thousands of koalas and making even more sterile, pushing the national icons to the brink of extinction. But it's also at ...

A species of tiny snail has been brought back from the brink of extinction. The Desertas Island land snails were believed to have disappeared altogether for 100 years, but experts have managed to ...

More than 1,300 critically endangered Desertas Island snails were released into the wild after being rescued from the edge of extinction, with a little help from a team of conservationists from ...

The British-Canadian computer scientist and winner of this year's Nobel prize in Physics has said that Artificial intelligence could wipe out the human race within the next decade. Prof Geoffrey ...

Dubbed the "godfather of AI," Professor Geoffrey Hinton has changed his projection on the potential for artificial intelligence to become humanity's causative destructive end. Talking on BBC Radio ...

They went extinct about 10,000 years ago. The region’s geological history may explain why so many mastodon remains have been discovered there. Dr. Harris notes that the area was once a biologically ...