Professor John Marshall collecting samples on the End Devonian mass extinction in East Greenland. Credit: Chris Berry A ...

Professor John Marshall, a palaeontologist at the University of Southampton, has been awarded a Polar Medal in the 2026 New ...

A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research. A fossil of ...

Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

We’ve not found fossils before that showed this, and so finding this now was a huge (but really fantastic) surprise,” ...

While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

Extreme heat and changes to land-use could put nearly 8,000 animal species around the world at a threat of extinction by the end of this century, according to a new study. An international team, led ...

In 2025, the IUCN Red List officially declared several animal and plant species extinct, highlighting global biodiversity ...

D.C. Rally Thursday Urges End to Trump’s Extinction Plan WASHINGTON— Conservation groups including the Center for Biological Diversity will deliver hundreds of thousands of comments Thursday to the ...

The long war against the Espheni finally reaches its conclusion in the final episode of Falling Skies. This sci-fi drama ...