Extinction

A newly identified “chicken from hell” species suggests dinosaurs weren’t sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hit

There are 856 mammal, bird, amphibian and reptile species currently missing—but researchers continue to search

The massive ancient ape Gigantopithecus blacki disappeared in a mystery that scientists are eager to crack

AI will become inscrutable and uncontrollable. We need to stop AI development until we have a necessary safety conversation

The iridescent, blind De Winton’s golden mole was last seen in 1937 and later declared officially lost. But scientists have since rediscovered it by tracking its environmental DNA

Engineers and paleontologists teamed up to reconstruct an ancestor of starfish from the Paleozoic era and figure out how it moved

Understanding the ancient past is critical to responding to challenges we face in the future

An expedition has discovered a remote Fijian cave with thousands of microbats thought to be nearly extinct

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” says a paleontologist not involved in the discovery of a 40-million-year-old fossilized whale

Cape Cod has quickly become one of the largest white shark hotspots in the world and the first ever in the North Atlantic

The pandemic fungus in the television program The Last of Us is real. But an expert says other fungi are much more threatening to humans

A de-extinction company known for its plans to resurrect the mammoth and Tasmanian tiger has announced it will also bring back the dodo