This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

It’s forcing the human race into what evolutionary biologists call a “bottleneck” — a period of rapid pressure that threatens cultures, customs and peoples with extinction. When college ...

French Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier, a professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Catholic Institute of Paris, has discovered a series of hidden inscriptions on the obelisk ...

If you were to line up every species on Earth in the order of most to least at risk of extinction ... Just last summer, researchers at this location found evidence of bog turtles—the smallest ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Earth has experienced at least five "mass extinction" events throughout its existence, but some species have been able to survive these major shifts. Utah researchers say they ...

Effort part of environmental initiative aimed at assessing shark population Although Oman ranks only 17th globally in shark fin exports, it remains a key player in the international trade — a ...

But new data reveals that Back to the Future's DeLorean DMC-12 is on the brink of extinction - with just 303 left on Britain's roads. Known for their gull-wing doors and unique unpainted steel ...

As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology ...

Whereas the 1814-15 structure was a 113-ft high conical tower, the new one designed by local architect John Green and built by Lewis Crabtree in 1856 was a 121-ft obelisk. Inside is a spiral ...

EMV chip cards have grown exponentially and legacy magnetic stripe cards will soon be nearly gone. That creates a need for banks to prepare for a world without magstripe cards. Secure chips are used ...

A RARE bird of prey that was saved from extinction has been spotted in Herefordshire. Marsh harriers were once so heavily persecuted and suffered so badly through habitat loss that, in 1971, just one ...

A rare pink pigeon wowing visitors at Paignton Zoo after its near-extinction. The striking bird belongs to a species that was down to just nine individuals in the wild during the 1990s.