Our impact on the planet has caused the Sixth Mass Extinction. Here are the main reasons why we are causing the most recent ...

It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

Johnson Mortimer/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 3.0 Quetzalcoatlus, one of the largest known flying animals, lived around ... native to New Zealand, became extinct around AD 1400. These flightless ...

In the 1950s, workmen digging up the south side of Trafalgar Square, in the heart of London, unearthed the bones of extinct ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent ...

Though many of the native predators that once roamed Great Britain were hunted to extinction, like the lynx, the brown bear, and most famously the wolf, there remains a vanishingly small population of ...

the quagga became the first extinct animal whose DNA was sequenced, paving the way for other modern de-extinction efforts. Some scientists thought that the quagga, a subspecies of the most common ...

"Monitoring cryptic species and monitoring at scale is a challenge which airborne eDNA may be able to address." ...

Online Dr. David Penning, a professor in the biology and environmental sciences department, said the MSSU Wildlife Society is ...