Remember the Dodo? That quirky flightless bird that once thrived in the thousands? It’s been gone for over a century. And what about the buffalo? The American West used to be home to hundreds of ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...

Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

Colossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent dire wolf project was controversial, and moa are an even more ambitious target ...

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 ...