Brazil is home to the world’s greatest diversity of amphibians: Of the more than 8,000 species known worldwide, some 1,200 ...

There have been some species of animals that have surprisingly been saved from being extinct. Among them are local species who suffered extinctions in a particular area.

A question that we have all asked ourselves at some time is what will happen when human beings become extinct or what species ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

A listing of Glitzenstein's legal victories reads like an animal alphabet, with entries ranging from "charismatic megafauna" ...

Brian Nesvik, the former director of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, stands to oversee plant and wildlife management ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

The Partula tohiveana snail has been reclassified as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List after being previously ...

Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet's ...

Some animals don’t get a second chance—but a few managed to claw their way back from the edge. These are species that faced real threats—habitat loss, hunting, pollution, disease—and for a while, it ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.