It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

One species, the Ethiopian wolf, is considered the most endangered carnivore in the world right now, and that is in large ...

The influx of human activity along the coastline has pushed them to the brink of extinction due to environmental degradation.

Interactions among species are reorganizing, and new dynamics emerge ... It is in this context of renewal that octopuses emerge as an unexpected dominant force. Although distant from humans due to ...

(Hominins is a term used to refer to humans and their extinct relatives ... multiple hominin species are thought to have coexisted in regions of eastern and southern Africa. But due to the ...

Some of the worst of these effects are the extinctions and extirpations of an untold number of species over the past few thousand years ... Human Development of Vital Habitat One of the largest causes ...

Even after our successful interbreeding with Neanderthals, our population of Europe wasn't without hitches. Those first ...

Predicting local extinction rates is complex due to differences in biological diversity, species distribution, climate, vegetation, habitat threats, invasive species, consumption patterns, and enacted ...

There are at least 300,000 species of invertebrate in Australia. Of these, two-thirds are unknown to western science.

The planet is about 1.3 degrees Celsius warmer today than it was in the late 1800s. That seemingly small increase has ...

Scientists have discovered a new human species that went extinct 200,000 years ago in ... said the new species likely formed due to a combination of crossing their genetics with homo sapiens ...

We are now entering a time of immense environmental upheaval with a multitude of factors (e.g. habitat degradation, climate change, over-exploitation) driving species to extinction as a result of ...