Few would doubt that more and more animals and plants are currently going extinct. One analysis comes to a different ...

Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.

Human activity may be setting the stage for the largest extinction event since the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

Not only is Minnesota the 'Land of Ten Thousand Lakes' but it's also the place where several unique species of wildlife call "home". However, there was once a time where animals like the Giant Ground ...

(CNN) - A new report says melting sea ice and deforestation are threatening the survival of many species. The latest Red List of Threatened Species assessment released Friday shows that more than a ...

Earth has endured five great die-offs, each reshaping life forever. Now scientists warn we may already be in a sixth—and this time, humanity is on the line. Cardiologist: 9 American foods you ...

As the federal government shutdown drags on into a second week, a critical animal recovery program based in Colorado has ground to a halt, delaying a reintroduction plan that could be crucial to the ...