Climate change is no longer a distant or abstract threat to Sri Lanka’s biodiversity. It is already driving local extinctions ...

A Hawaii County law that came into force this month (January 2026) bans the feeding of feral cats on county property. The law ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

From looking into the future with artificial intelligence to learning about mummies of the past, the Museum of Idaho ventures further back in time, before dinosaurs existed. Life Before Dinosaurs: ...

Smithsonian paleontologists confirmed a 209-million-year-old pterosaur at Petrified Forest National Park, clarifying early ...

Fewer than 3,500 remain and numbers have been continuing to drop. Find out what is being done to save the endangered population.

Deep in the coastal woods of South Carolina, behind high fences, guard dogs, and security cameras, is a group of people who ...

The Triassic period marked a chaotic chapter in Earth’s history following the planet’s largest mass extinction. This documentary explores the bizarre reptiles that emerged as ecosystems struggled to ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

A new species of amphibian that lived 150 million years ago has been discovered in Portugal. The tiny animal was one of the ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

While viral headlines occasionally highlight various roadkill gourmands, the expired creatures actually have many other ...