A trio of woolly mammoths trudges over snow covered hills. Behind them, mountains with snow covered peaks rise above dark green forests of fir trees.…
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A sampling of snake diversity. Clockwise from upper left: rainbow boa (Epicrates cenchria), image credit Pascal Title, U-M Museum of Zoology; Amazon basin tree snake…
New research predicts that the loss of 108 threatened primates could doom an additional 176 parasite species to extinction, because they have no other suitable…
A right whale breaches the surface. Warming oceans have driven the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale population from its traditional and protected habitat, exposing…
Selective extinction of apex predators suggests a shift to more generalist diets. A global catastrophe 66 million years ago led to the extinction of all…
The 93-year-old Xerces blue butterfly specimen used in this study. Credit: Field Museum The Xerces blue butterfly was last seen flapping its iridescent periwinkle wings…
Chapman’s pygmy chameleon is one of the world’s rarest chameleons, and now clings to survival in small patches of forest. Credit: Krystal Tolley Chapman’s pygmy…
If rocks from Earth containing microbial life entered Venus’s orbit in the past, this life may have adapted to Venus’s atmospheric conditions. The death of…
Shark Bay mouse (Pseudomys fieldi). Credit: Source: Australian Wildlife Conservancy Photographer: Wayne Lawler An Australian mammal thought to have been wiped out over 150 years…
A rosy wolf snail marked and equipped with a Michigan Micro Mote computer system in the Fautaua-Iti Valley site in Tahiti. Credit: Inhee Lee Study…
The rediscovered volcano mouse, thought to be extinct. Credit: (c) Danny Balete, Field Museum A small mouse rediscovered on a volcano that erupted 30 years…
Researchers warn that if we don’t act quickly, many species, including species of salmon and southern resident killer whales, are likely to be functionally extinct…
Acorns of Quercus bambusifolia, an endangered oak found in China and Vietnam. Credit: The Morton Arboretum First complete global extinction risk assessment reveals bleak future…
A large international consortium led by scientists at Uppsala University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has sequenced the genome of 130 mammals…
Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to survive. Now,…
Artist’s reconstruction of a savannah in Middle Pleistocene Southeast Asia. In the foreground Homo erectus, stegodon, hyenas, and Asian rhinos are depicted. Water buffalo can…
A life-scene from 232 million years ago, during the Carnian Pluvial Episode after which dinosaurs took over. A large rauisuchian lurks in the background, while…
Modeling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in. The asteroid, which…
Normal and malformed spores from East Greenland. Credit: John Marshall Researchers at the University of Southampton have shown that an extinction event 360 million years…
Original artwork depicting the moment the asteroid struck in present-day Mexico. Credit: Chase Stone New simulations from Imperial College London have revealed the asteroid that…