The Mangshan pit viper, a rare and highly venomous snake confined to a handful of mountain forests in China’s Hunan and ...

What is a mass extinction – and how many of them have there been? Will Newton takes a look the 'big five' extinction events ...

From the vanishing of 10 billion snow crabs in Alaska's Bering Sea to the first mammal officially declared extinct due to climate change, the devastating impact of rising temperatures on Earth's ...

Throughout human ecological history, we have played a variety of roles within ecosystems around the world. In this so-called ...

With a bulging head that looks like it swallowed a gavel, there's no mistaking the animal: It’s a hammerhead shark. Across the globe, there are more than nine hammerhead species, many of which are ...

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

Scientists say the "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out.

A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants ...

Oil crops cause a loss of around 1.5 percent of animal and plant species. This is the conclusion of a new study. According to the study, the biodiversity loss caused by oil crops has increased by ...

Sports tourism is being reexamined as an industry model that drives local economies, moving beyond simple leisure travel.

Some of the plants that make familiar landscapes recognizable may not survive by century’s end as climate change becomes an increasingly important driver of species loss, according to scientists, ...