The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

De-extinction entrepreneur Ben Lamm speaks exclusively with Metro.co.uk's Jen Mills.

This new species of ancient arthropod has been affectionately named Sue and scientifically dubbed Keurbos susanae.

Meet Romulus and Remus, who Colossal Biosciences claim to be the world's first de-extinct animals.

From the Ordovician-Silurian extinction (which eliminated 85% of marine species) to the Cretaceous-Paleogene event that ended the dinosaurs, paleontologists analyze how these extinctions occurred. By ...

Overhunting by early Polynesian settlers and habitat destruction led to their rapid extinction. The Tasmanian tiger ... that hunted along the shorelines of North America during the Silurian period, ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. The new analysis ...