The age of de-extinction may soon be a reality. Advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology are making resurrecting animals once lost to this world a tangible prospect. The organizations ...

Nearly all the trees died. Looy had told me that the Black Triangle was the best place today to see what the world would have looked like after the Permian extinction. This didn't look like ...

According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly ... wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second -- 150 times faster than a jet airliner.

Lucas Atwell CC BY-SA 3.0 Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass ...

A group of endangered snails are getting a second lease on life in a remote ... less than 200 each—of two species headed for extinction on the island, scooped them up, and brought them to ...

Here are four animals that managed to persist through Earth’s mass extinction events. Additionally, horseshoe crabs have a reproductive strategy that includes spawning in large numbers ...

Nearly a quarter of the world's freshwater species are at risk of extinction, according to new research. A detailed extinction assessment of more than 23,000 species of freshwater fauna by the ...

The waters around the U.S. are home to threatened species who need conservation policies to save them from extinction. They won’t get that for the next four years.

Extinction occurs when there are no remaining individuals of a species alive. Animals that have not adapted well to their environment are less likely to survive and reproduce than those that are ...