It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

Researchers think there are now around 7.7 million animal species living on Earth, with thousands more discovered every year.

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Another important study focused on the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, which is pivotal for understanding the radiation of early animals. Researchers created new age models based on carbon isotope ...

In the absence of a living specimen, scientists say, an ambling, flying, swimming, or slithering automaton is the next best thing for studying the behavior of extinct organisms. Learning more ...

Fossils don't get much older than trilobites, extinct marine arthropods that date back to a time before animals had backbones and even before there were any plants on land. They were already well ...

More than 99% of all living species have gone extinct. Whole time periods are buried in layers of rock and sediment and, with it, libraries of information about Earth’s history and what came before us ...

Therefore, we look deeper at these animals, their stories, and how to prevent the past from repeating itself. It has been calculated that between 0.01 and 0.1% of all species will become extinct ...

New research reveals that damage to these environments is pushing freshwater animals to the edge of extinction, with 24% of species in danger of being wiped out. Thousands of fish, crab and ...

The Cost of Preventing Extinction of Australia's Priority Species Feb. 3, 2025 — A new study has estimated it would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...