Credit...Photo illustration by Tyler Comrie. (Georges Seurat, “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884,” via the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection/The Art ...

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of species from ...

How did the woolly mammoth, an ambassador of the Ice Age, end up confined to modern-day Wrangel Island? And what ultimately caused their extinction? New evidence suggests it wasn’t poor genetics as ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Late in September, as Hurricane Helene struck the Southeast, Wally Smith immediately ...

In two new studies, researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, have shed light on how interactions between predators and prey influenced the ...

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the charge, has made ...

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I recently asked BFA Fine Arts Chair Suzanne Anker a few questions about her ongoing exhibition “Arctic Gardens and the Sixth Extinction,” covering things like the concepts and concerns that underlie ...