Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...

As Ronald Reagan aptly said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” May that not happen on our ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite global conservation goals and urgent policies aimed at protecting nature, ...

The California Academy of Sciences is leading an effort to bring back the Xerces blue butterfly, which went extinct around ...

Costa Rica’s bare-necked umbrellabird and mangrove hummingbird face extinction, study warns. Learn about the threats and ...

Humanity must wake up to the climate crisis or face extinction, Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate and National Climate Change Committee Adviser Lee Yuan-tseh (李遠哲) said yesterday in a call for urgency in ...

Discover the fascinating story of the woolly mammoth, an Ice Age giant. Learn about its features, habitat, extinction, and ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Steven Spielberg sends his dinosaurs on their seventh adventure. The human cast changes, but is largely dispensable anyway.

After several installments focused on silly human stories, the latest gives due respect to the creatures that made the whole ...