An ancient predatory dinosaur that lived 220 million years ago, Maleriraptor kuttyi, redefines carnivorous dinosaurs' origin ...

A team of Colombian botanists has issued an urgent wake-up call after discovering a remarkable new orchid species, only to ...

A newly described dinosaur that appears to have persisted beyond a catastrophic die-off is forcing scientists to rethink how ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event. The eruptions spewed large amounts of greenhouse gases ...

WOOLLY mammoths are a step closer to coming back from the dead after RNA from a 39,000-year-old carcass was found. The Ice ...

For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some estimates, species are ...

A rare wild orchid has been brought back from the brink of extinction by the work of dedicated conservationists. The ...

Learn about a new mathematical model that suggests Neanderthals never went extinct and, instead, became modern humans.

Earth's largest mass extinction occurred about 252 million years ago, wiping out the majority of marine and terrestrial life, ...

The end-Permian extinction is one of the greatest mysteries in Earth’s history. Sure, the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event — the one that (almost) wiped out all the dinosaurs — was bad, but even ...