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

Protecting animals against environmental changes, poachers, and other dangers is vital yet challenging work. And in recent ...

Mountaintops host some of the world's most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these habitats into ...

Commonly referred to as the “Great Dying,” this extinction event is estimated to have wiped out more than 95 percent of marine species, as well as some terrestrial amphibians and reptiles. Many ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

This inability to move can seal their fate, leading to extinction. Imagine a crowded elevator where everyone is trying to move to the top floor—some will get left behind. Global warming is ...

This destabilized the climate and the carbon cycle, leading to dramatic global warming, deoxygenated oceans, and mass extinction. However, many plants survived, leaving behind fossils which ...

National Panda Day highlights global conservation efforts to protect pandas from habitat loss and possible extinction.