Perhaps no other book about mass extinctions blends hard scientific facts with beautiful prose like this one. The Sixth Extinction is not meant to serve as a reference book but rather as a ...

In her recent book How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction, Shapiro builds on her vast experience studying ancient DNA (from woolly mammoths and bison to dodos and passenger pigeons ...

Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America by Jon Mooallem “We are living in the eye of a great storm of extinction ...