How did the woolly mammoth, an ambassador of the Ice Age, end up confined to modern-day Wrangel Island? And what ultimately caused their extinction? New evidence suggests it wasn’t poor genetics as ...

Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass ...

The dodo is often viewed as the classic example of extinction and obsolescence. However, the truth is that countless species have met similar fates. Here’s one bird whose epoch ended much in the same ...

Scientists discovered the Huayuan Biota fossils in Hunan Province, China, dating 512 million years. The fossils include 153 species from 16 groups, with 90 species new to science. They date just after ...

Great auks (Pinguinus impennis) were large flightless birds that thrived on rocky islands in the North Atlantic for thousands of years. However, humans hunted them to extinction within just a few ...