Sharks and rays in the Western Indian Ocean are facing an extinction crisis. Almost half of the region’s 270 known species ...

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Extinction rates for island land snails commonly range from 30% to as high as 80% on some volcanic islands, according to a new review paper that ...

Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that ...

While pumas have killed thousands of Magellanic penguins in Patagonia, predator pressure alone is unlikely to drive the ...

Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact, Homo sapiens might still face extinction, because the social networks ...

The Olympic marmot is endemic to the Olympic Peninsula — it is found nowhere else in the world. Now, the federal government ...

Before we start to crunch too many numbers, let’s go over the very basics of who took our sex survey.

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Tucked away in Siskiyou County, just shy of the Oregon border, Yreka (pronounced “why-reeka”) stands as living proof that ...

This scene is a natural formation shaped by erosion and time. Located in Zhangye Danxia Landform, China, the hills display ...

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...