Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist.

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

What is a mass extinction? Extinction is a part of life, and animals and plants disappear all the time. About 98% of all the organisms that have ever existed on our planet are now extinct. When a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Life on Earth is anything but predictable. For evidence, ...

"Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction." But that all depends on your definition of de-extinction — and ...

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A third of all the lemur species on Earth are "one step from extinction". This is according to the latest update of the Red List, the comprehensive, continually updated report on the status of species ...

Gerta Keller was waiting for me at the Mumbai airport so we could catch a flight to Hyderabad and go hunt rocks. “You won’t die,” she told me cheerfully as soon as I’d said hello. “I’ll bring you back ...