Mountaintops host some of the world's most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these habitats into ...

A group of scientists and NASA got together and with the help of supercomputers came up with a date for total and complete ...

The world around us is constantly changing, and with these changes come questions that challenge our understanding of life on ...

Extinction is the most serious, utterly irreversible effect of unsustainable human population. But unfortunately, many analyses of what a sustainable human population level would look like presume ...

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

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction.

Increasingly, researchers are doing the numbers, and saying, yes, if present trends continue, a mass extinction is very likely underway. The evidence is pieced together from details drawn from all ...

It’s always unfortunate when a species goes extinct. This tragedy usually happens over a prolonged period, but certain events ...

A new study led by NatureServe reveals that more than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of ...

The extinction of Gigantopteris plants in South ... argues that latitude and atmospheric circulation may have limited the effects of acid rain, wildfire, and toxic gases in certain regions.