A handful of plankton fossils buried in a small chunk of rock show that the oceans were teeming with life before the Late ...

Evolution occurs over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster. Scientists are working to close the gap.

Explore the dramatic history of our planet's five major extinction events and learn how these natural disasters have fundamentally shaped the evolution of life as we know it today.

Climate change is pushing two iconic Antarctic species toward the brink of extinction, a new assessment finds.

Emperor penguins and Antarctic fur seals have been classified as endangered due to significant population declines, according ...

Wikimedia Commons. Before the war began in February 2026, there was some rare good news for Iran’s imperiled Asiatic cheetahs ...

Conservationists now list the penguins and seals as “Endangered.” Climate change in Antarctica has led to plunging ...

Emperor penguins face rapid decline as Antarctic sea ice collapses. WWF urges urgent global action to protect the species ...

The emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now both Endangered, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

Six species will be added to the list in 2026 due to a lack of recent documentation, including the Mindoro bleeding-heart (last photographed in 2005 in the Philippines), the Mindoro imperial pigeon, ...

Once common across the grasslands west of Melbourne, the Victorian grassland earless dragon was thought to be extinct for 54 ...