In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

Guest Opinion. The Dire Wolf is said to have become extinct about 10,000 years ago. It was a true North American carnivore, ...

It turns out it does matter what you eat, especially to crocodylians — crocodiles, alligators and gharials — a species ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Each year, animals and plants are being lost to extinction. In fact, more than 160 species disappeared in the past decade alone. According to the World Wide Fund (WWF), the rapid loss of species we ...

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...