Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' by Sadiah QureshiThe book is a breathtaking account of extinction as both an ...

Unfortunately, one million endangered species could become extinct. On World Wildlife Day, learn who is at risk and how to ...

Before humans ever walked the planet, Earth was home to some of the strangest and most terrifying creatures in history — and we narrowly missed sharing the world with many of them. From 10-foot terror ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age.

The scimitar-horned oryx has been brought back from extinction through captive breeding. Conservationists hope it could help ...

Narrated by Tom Hiddleston and executive produced by Hollywood film-maker Jon Favreau alongside creative director of the BBC’s Natural History Unit and long-term David Attenborough collaborator Mike ...

Blue whales don’t just hold the title for the biggest animal on the planet today. The truth is that they’re […] ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

A newly identified sponge group called Vilesida is giving scientists a clearer view of animal origins, linking sponges with ...

By monitoring the movement, health, and environmental conditions of thousands of animals at once, Project ICARUS hopes to ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...