From ice-age hunters to our closest extinct relatives, this essential guide uncovers who the Neanderthals really were — and what they reveal about us.

Asharq Al Awsat The mountain bongo has become the ghost of the forest, hard to spot amid the dense shrubs due to its ability to camouflage.A critically endangered species, the animal is being slowly ...

Between warmer temperatures and shifts in rain and snow patterns, between 7% and 16% of the world’s plant species are likely to lose at least 90% of their habitat and go essentially extinct in about ...

For some years, I’ve been interested in the Marxist concepts of base and superstructure —  specifically what they suggest is ...

Fossils reveal that there were at least two kinds of koala when humans first arrived in Australia, but one died out about ...

An extinct koala species has been discovered in Western Australia. Climate change 28,000 years ago erased its habitat.

When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature has gone the way of the dinosaur and the dodo, but on occasion, scientists ...

The findings were published April 22 in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

The timber rattlesnake and northern copperhead are reclusive but increasingly encountered as development expands into their ...

A crowd of Palisade High School students gathered on the banks of the Colorado River Friday to release hundreds of endangered ...

Learn what the Endangered Species Act does, how it protects wildlife in the US and abroad, and why proposed changes could ...

Deep in a dried-up riverbed in Brazil, scientists uncovered a bizarre prehistoric mystery—twisted jawbones from a strange, ...