A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

Discover the real science behind the de-extinction of the dire wolf and how modern genetics is bringing extinct species back ...

A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth’s mass extinctions.

A Canadian researcher dedicated decades of her life to studying orangutans and promoting conservation efforts.

A Neanderthal skull from Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar. (AquilaGib/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Genetic deterioration may not have been the major cause of Neanderthal extinction, new evidence suggests ...

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New research challenges the idea that self-fertilization is an evolutionary dead end and points to a more complex story.

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

Life on Earth underwent a long evolutionary journey that eventually gave rise to us, the purportedly intelligent species that ...

The discovery of a "botanical Pompeii" has rewritten a long-held theory that flowering plants only flourished after the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine eagle has exceptionally low genetic diversity, making the critically endangered species fragile and more likely to face extinction when confronted by disease, ...

Imagine returning to a favorite hiking trail 15 years after your first visit and discovering that many of the plants and animals that once lived there are gone. While these species may still exist ...