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

During the Early-Middle Devonian period, a large landmass called Gondwana—which included parts of today's Africa, South America, and Antarctica—was located near the South Pole. Unlike today's icy ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

TL;DR• A mass die-off of sea urchins in the Canary Islands has led to a halt in reproduction, pointing to possible local ...

Green sea turtles are no longer endangered, "thanks to decades of sustained conservation action," the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) shared The global population of the species ...

(Gary Braasch / Corbis) When Polynesians arrived at the uninhabited Hawaiian Islands thousands of years ago, they found an array of colorful tree snails, each less than an inch in length, across the ...

The Trump administration wants to make economic impacts a factor in what was previously a science-based decision on what's best for threatened species.