It is estimated that throughout the Earth's 4.5 billion-year existence, over 99% of the species inhabiting it have gone extinct. Many of these species died due to mass extinction events. Life on Earth ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Krystal Tolley receives funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. What happens when a species has not been seen by anyone for decades? Environmentalists think of these as “lost ...

Climate change is driving many of Australia’s native reptiles toward extinction, and the answers to their future survival may lie in the fossil record. New research published today in Current Biology ...