EXTINCTION

“It’s like if you took a chimpanzee and edited its genome to be a little taller and hairless, and then said you brought back Neanderthals,” one scientist said.

The Southern Darwin’s frog is unique in the amphibian world, and conservationists are racing to save it from extinction.

There’s a gooey time capsule in the heart of Los Angeles, left over from an era when saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, camels, and giant sloths prowled southern California.

Conservationists warn that the monarch could die out by the end of the century unless action is taken.

Chemical signatures from the Chicxulub asteroid’s impact—which caused a mass extinction on Earth 66 million years ago—match those of carbonaceous meteorites formed beyond Jupiter.

When dog breeds fall out of fashion, they risk disappearing all together.

As more Millennials have children, many of them are shying away from names that were popular in their own classrooms decades ago. 

A new exhibit coming to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City examines elephants’ past, present, and future.

A new study explains how T. rex's feathered ancestors may have survived the extinction event that wiped out nearly half of all quadrupeds.

How many ice ages have there been so far? The same number of ‘Ice Age’ movies that have been released. (Five.)

New research suggests that the real-life inspiration for Ghost from 'Game of Thrones' wasn’t a wolf species.

Massachusetts already has its fair share of state symbols (including Boston cream pie and Boston cream doughnuts), but you can never have too many.