Researchers identified an early mammal ancestor whose eggs may have helped it survive the Great Dying 250 million years ago.

The small, plant-eating Lystrosaurus thrived post-extinction, while its predators suffocated to death. Its eggs played a ...

A new report led by Conservation International and IUCN, published today in Oryx, warns that over 40% of more than 8,500 soil ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

Every single Alborn skink believed to be alive today is in one isolated, five-hectare wetland in New Zealand. “We’re at a ...

A new study reveals that a major cooling event 34 million years ago caused staggered marine extinctions, not a single global ...

Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...

New technology has helped a team of scientists uncover more than 20 microscopic fossils, including a species previously ...

Six animal species, including the slender-billed curlew and Christmas Island shrew, were confirmed extinct in 2025. Habitat loss, invasive species, climate change, and hunting are the primary drivers ...

Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal rescue and wildlife. Curiosity Stream/YouTube Dire wolves, the canine companions from Game ...

With much controversy swirling around Colossal's proxy dire wolves, we spoke with the company's CEO to find out how these animals were created and what so-called de-extinction technology could mean ...

The largest primate ever to walk the Earth went extinct because it could not adapt to its changing environment, with the mighty beast reduced to living off bark and twigs before dying off, scientists ...