About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The ...

In the viral 30 November 2025 episode of “People by WTF”, Elon Musk looked straight at Nikhil Kamath — who admitted he has no children — and said: “Well… maybe you should. You won’t regret it.” He ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data. Researchers found that species losses peaked about a century ago and have ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

"They're 10 months old, and they're already 115 pounds," Colossal Biosciences says of dire wolves, Romulus and Remus Colossal Sciences A Colossal Biosciences representative confirmed that the dire ...

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out in just a few decades, the dodo has become a symbol of extinction and ...

Cock Van Oosterhout receives funding from the Royal Society for conservation genomics work on threatened bird species in Mauritius, and a donation by the Colossal Foundation for conservation genomic ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...