Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is opening a second comment period as they work to list the monarch butterfly on the ...

A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural world continues to face a biodiversity crisis, targeted conservation efforts are helping bring many species back from the ...

Data shows that while retention bans are a positive first step, they alone won’t be sufficient to stop the ongoing decline.

It took thousands of years to develop the world's extraordinary range of domesticated farm animals—an estimated 8,800 ...

Human actions, such as incidental fishing and ineffective policies, push one-third of shark populations toward extinction.

A pioneering effort to rescue Britain’s rarest native tree has taken root in Devon, as conservationists create a ‘living ...

There are many lesser-known facts about Ohio, and one of the more unfortunate is a rare animal species that went extinct ...

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

The bone remains, including parts of the left cheek and upper jaw, belong to an extinct human species that lived between 1.1 ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Are we at risk of losing fireflies forever? Here's the current state of firefly populations around the world and how you can protect them.