Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...
A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...
Sometimes an animal long thought to be extinct reappears decades or centuries later, shocking scientists! Join Hank Green for a look at seven species that we thought were gone forever... but are back ...
This year, at least six animal and insect species moved to the Extinct category of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...
Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia’s extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...
The Earth officially lost at least six species this year, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The list — an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of ...
A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out ...
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PORTLAND, Maine — One of the world's rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of ...