The Great Dying, a cataclysmic period 252 million years ago during which more than 90 percent of sea creatures and 70 percent of land vertebrates went extinct, may have taken place over only a few thousand years, according to a study published Wednesday in the Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Read moreA cute, furry critter from the Rocky Mountains may be more resilient to the ravages of climate change than previously thought, according to a study released Tuesday.
Read moreA bison reserve in eastern Poland says seven young female animals are traveling to Spain to help boost a bison herd there.
Read moreThe threatened extinction of a songbird that shares its name with a butterfly spurred a federal complaint Thursday by conservationists.
Read moreHundreds of new fossils reveal that pterosaurs died off abruptly during the same mass extinction event that ended the reign of dinosaurs, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Biology.
Read moreThe health of the world’s last male northern white rhino has deteriorated, bringing the rhino subspecies a step closer to extinction caused by poaching.
Read moreUltraviolet radiation at the level scientists believe Earth experienced 252 million years ago during the planet’s largest mass extinction event can temporarily sterilize pine trees, according to a new study that supports the theory that ozone depletion contributed to the die-off.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday it has removed the eastern cougar from the federal list of protected species because it is extinct.
Read moreDespite wiping out nearly half of all life on Earth, one of the most devastating mass extinctions did not fundamentally alter marine ecosystems, a new study finds.
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California filed criminal charges Wednesday against three sellers of ivory merchandise – a first under a new state law barring the sale of such products, according to prosecutors.
Read moreA developmental abnormality that contributed to the extinction of woolly rhinos could serve as an indicator of at-risk populations among modern rhinoceros species, several of which are already considered endangered or threatened.
Read moreGathering inside Manhattan’s Central Park, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation crushed more than a ton of ivory from the largest seizure in the state’s history at a Thursday morning ceremony.
Read moreGeologists have uncovered evidence that the largest extinction event in the history of planet Earth was an inside job.
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New research shows that the mass die-off of dinosaurs and many other species also sparked an explosion of new frog breeds – a surprising relationship that reinforces the theory that mass extinctions can lead to surges of evolutionary activity.
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Researchers have discovered an ancient mass extinction event of large marine animals that was partially triggered by changes in the ocean that could endanger modern sea species.
Read moreThe last population of woolly mammoths suffered from a “mutational meltdown” in their genomes that interfered with gene functions and ultimately led to their extinction.
Read moreThe majority of nonhuman primate species could be extinct within the next 25 years due to shrinking habitats and an expanding illegal animal trade, among other threats.
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