A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

A new study in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, resurrected the mutated genes of the last herd of woolly mammoths and found that their small population had developed ...

Historical geology: the ages of life -- Sea life: marine life-forms -- Land life: terrestial life-forms -- Mass extinctions: the disappearance of species -- Causes of extinction: the forces of change ...