Earth Day: A Call to Protect Our Shared Future Earth Day isn’t just a celebration—it’s a wake-up call. The extinction crisis isn’t only about losing animals or plants; it’s about ...

Inspired by a mountain lion isolated from potential mates, the world's largest wildlife bridge is being built in Los Angeles ...

Humans first evolved as a distinct species, Homo sapiens, around 300,000 years ago in Africa. In terms of biological time, we are a young species on this planet-- an unfinished animal, our evolution ...

“Saltatorial” is the scientific word to describe animals such as kangaroos, grasshoppers and rabbits that have evolved to be natural leapers. 3 Salto the squirrelly robot uses his flywheel to ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Earth In millions of years, what could a future civilisation learn about us? Millions of years after humans vanish, fossil clues showing how we lived and dominated the planet may confuse future ...

A new analysis of more than 70,000 wild animal species reveals that climate change now threatens thousands of to the planet’s wildlife, along with overexploitation and habitat degradation.