It turns out it does matter what you eat, especially to crocodylians — crocodiles, alligators and gharials — a species ...

For scientists and conservationists, knowing how species survive planetary crises can lead to more effective protection of vulnerable species.

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Movies and TV productions are rapidly leaving California to film outside the United States, where labor costs are lower and ...

A Texas-based startup has revived the long-extinct dire wolf, but should we take their efforts with a pinch of salt?

In the last 500 million years, the Earth has experienced five major mass extinction events, known as the "Big Five," and scientists are concerned about when we might enter a sixth. Colossal ...

The technology they are pursuing may be the key to reversing the sixth mass extinction and making extinction events a thing of ... where LCORL should bind to a major gene silencing complex known ...

The environment is not a distant, abstract concern. It is here. It is now. It is about who breathes clean air, and who does not. Who gets poisoned. Who profits. And who dies.

The unprecedented rate of glacial loss in major ranges such ... has been referred to as the sixth extinction. There have been five known extinction-level events over the last 445 million years ...