Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

Japan’s lost ‘tigers’ were actually a different big cat species, study reveals - Cave lions lived in Japan long after they went extinct elsewhere, study reveals ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene ...

The cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, was a prominent member of the Pleistocene megafauna in Europe, whose evolutionary history and ecological dynamics continue to captivate palaeontologists and evolutionary ...

Fossils uncovered in Japan, thought to be from the archipelago’s lost tiger population, have now been revealed to be of an ancient species of lion. While there are no native lion or tiger populations ...

Pleistocene ground sloths constitute a remarkable and diverse group of xenarthran mammals that thrived across South America during a period of significant climatic and environmental flux. Their fossil ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...