It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...

Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist.

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within.

Few know that avocados nearly disappeared from the Earth long ago. Their survival is tied to a turn in natural history and an ...

Warnings that humanity is heading toward its own disappearance have shifted from the fringes of science fiction into mainstream research and public debate. Instead of vague prophecies, scientists now ...

The slow but steady rise in the population of the Kashmiri stag, or Hangul, offers a rare note of optimism in an otherwise ...

A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...

A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...

An extinct race in One Piece is not uncommon, even in a world full of fish-men and giants. Some races have almost disappeared ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?