A new modeling study suggests that greater connectivity between groups may have given Homo sapiens the edge over Neanderthals ...

A new report led by Conservation International and IUCN, published today in Oryx, warns that over 40% of more than 8,500 soil ...

Merlin could disappear in worst-case scenario, with British isles facing ecological ‘point of no return’ The merlin, Britain’s smallest bird of prey, is one of more than 200 species that will become ...

A 1991 hypothesis suggested that deforestation at Centinela in western Ecuador caused the immediate extinction of dozens of plant species believed to exist nowhere else. A 2024 reassessment finds that ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, ...

Kokotajlo also pointed to intense industry competition as a key risk factor. A former OpenAI researcher has warned that rapid advances in artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to ...

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice are having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers The mass drowning of emperor penguin chicks as sea ice is melted by the climate crisis ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s history ...

A new report led by Conservation International and IUCN, published today in Oryx, warns that over 40% of more than 8,500 soil ...

The U.N. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) on Sunday approved the listing of 40 new species for international protection, including the snowy owl featured in ...

Griffith University's Dr Andrea Jalandoni inside a cave where the paintings showing Tasmanian tigers have been documented. Source: Griffith University/Harry J Burrell Newly released images of a ...

Emperor penguins and Antarctic fur seals are facing the threat of extinction due to climate change, a new conservation assessment has revealed. Both populations have seen a dramatic decline in recent ...