Sloth size and habitat shifted multiple times over the past 35 million years, but human hunting likely drove the slower, ...

Researchers have recovered Homo erectus bones from the seafloor, which points to an unknown hominin population hunting on ...

A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth.

The heath hen once fluttered across the eastern U.S. in huge numbers. By the late 1800s, however, it had retreated to ...

"Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction ...

The northern white rhinoceros is one of the rarest animals on Earth, with just two females left and no natural way for the ...

"De-extinction" takes center stage as environmentalists express dismay over erosion of the Endangered Species Act ...

A proposed change in the interpretation of "harm" would degrade the power of the law that protects plants and animals from ...

Fossils discovered beneath the Madura Strait in Indonesia reveal a previously unknown population of Homo erectus inhabiting ...

Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in ...

In an East Village gallery, K Allado-McDowell has created an audiovisual tribute to species we have lost as a rehearsal for a proposed physical monument.