What looked like the end of one of college sports’ most storied conferences has become one of its most remarkable comeback stories.

The effort to save the frosted flatwood salamander is an example of why, conservationists say, it's so important to protect wildlife before it's at critical risk. NPR’s Nate Rott reports. This segment ...

Mitch Dickens's passion for sheep genetics saw his parents give him his own stud, which they hope will help keep a heritage ...

If you’re after a game to perk you up when you’re feeling down, Endling: Extinction is Forever isn’t it. Humans are bastards. That the basic message of Endling: Extinction is Forever. We’re ...

Snakes are facing extinction due to deadly diseases, warns new research. Rattlesnakes are among the most vulnerable species threatened around the world, say scientists. Infections, often caused by ...

Colossal Biosciences has announced newborn chickens from an ‘egg’ made of titanium and bioengineered silicone. It’s the firm’s next step toward resurrecting New Zealand's extinct giant moa. Reading ...

Author Sadiah Qureshi explores our relationship with extinction, how our understanding of it has changed, and even whether it could be reversed. Traditionally, if a species becomes extinct, it is gone ...

There’s little prey left for jaguars in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, which is driving the big cat’s decline there, according to new research. Hunting is wiping out species like deer and peccaries that ...

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on Earth. Vertebrate groups that dominated at the time, such as dinosaurs and ...

Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had “resurrected” the dire wolf, a megafauna-hunting wolf species that had been extinct for 10,000 years. Within two days ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world to one teeming with animal life, as nearly all major animal phyla appeared ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...