Climate change and habitat destruction are driving species to extinction at an alarming rate. The impact extends across all ...

“Everyone knows that the woolly mammoth went extinct, but virtually no-one mentions the plants that were lost at the end of the last ice age,” says Prof Ulrike Herzschuh from the Alfred Wegener ...

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that the extinction of giant Ice Age animals continues to shape food webs today, especially in the Americas. Researchers ...

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 ...

Correction (December 18th 2024): A previous version of this article incorrectly listed David Attenborough as a founder of the Earthshot Prize. This has been corrected. The long-nosed saiga antelope, a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Genetic research that reconstructed the past population dynamics of the cave bear, a prominent prehistoric denizen of Europe, implicates Homo sapiens rather than climate cooling ...