During the Early-Middle Devonian period, a large landmass called Gondwana—which included parts of today's Africa, South America, and Antarctica—was located near the South Pole. Unlike today's icy ...

The late 1900s were a time of rapid change for our planet, and unfortunately, some of its most unique inhabitants did not survive. Between the 1980s and 1990s, several animal species disappeared ...

True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time ...

Since 2016, sea ice levels have dramatically declined. Thousands of chicks have frozen or drowned, the wildlife fund said.

Every endangered species is unique, but some of their behaviors, from snacking to napping to socializing, are all too ...

Scientists researching in the Galapagos Islands found thriving colonies of a coral long thought to be extinct. According to Mongabay, the researchers, diving near Tagus Cove, detailed their find in a ...

LOS ANGELES -- The vaquita porpoise lives only in the Northern Gulf of California. They are shy animals that only hang out in small groups, and because of that not many people have seen them. Vaquita ...