An ancient aquatic species that's been around for 450 million years is facing extinction as a series of factors work against the longevity of the living fossil.

World authority on threatened wildlife classifies 96 percent of assessed coral reef systems as "critically endangered".

We have reached an unprecedented moment in history and for the first time ever, humans have induced what some are calling the ...

Analysis of tiny zircon crystals buried within the 10-mile-wide Ames crater in northwest Oklahoma suggests that the submerged ...

One species is reshaping climate, chemistry, and habitat fast enough to match past planetary die-offs. · 0 sources across the ...

I knew about biodiversity as an intellectual concept, of course I did. But there was a day when a leap of understanding told me what it means in my heart and my soul and my guts. It was mid-May 1990, ...

New uranium-lead dating of zircons from Oklahoma’s buried Ames impact structure points to a Late Devonian age near 370 million years, roughly 100 million years younger than its traditional Ordovician ...

How passenger pigeons went from billions in North America to extinction through hunting, habitat loss, and human disbelief in their decline.

Earth was hit by a huge burst of gamma rays originating from a star nearly 2 billion lightyears away, according to the European Space Agency. The gamma ray burst caused a disturbance in Earth's ...

Discovered in Montana in 2016, the cherry-size coprolite contains feathers, bones and evidence of the bird's last meal before ...