Extinction

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” says a paleontologist not involved in the discovery of a 40-million-year-old fossilized whale

Cape Cod has quickly become one of the largest white shark hotspots in the world and the first ever in the North Atlantic

The pandemic fungus in the television program The Last of Us is real. But an expert says other fungi are much more threatening to humans

A de-extinction company known for its plans to resurrect the mammoth and Tasmanian tiger has announced it will also bring back the dodo

An exquisite dinosaur mummy called Dakota shows evidence it was feasted on by ancient predators

The scientists who want to bring back mammoths now hope to revive the marsupial carnivore thylacine

From the depths of the ocean to the peaks of mountains, species are moving out of their historical homes in search of cooler conditions

Geologic evidence for a freezing arctic suggests dinosaurs could have weathered an epoch-ending volcanic winter

This “keystone” variant of a gene could make or break a food web in an experimental system

Researchers want their models to inspire more accurate reconstructions of extinct animals such as mammoths and saber-toothed cats

Clues to the season of impact lingered in delicate fish fossils

This new release uses a comet hurtling toward Earth to satirize the way we dismiss scientific facts and the scientists who discover them