In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Sturgeons are one of the oldest groups of fishes. Sporting an armor of five rows of bony, modified scales called dermal ...

A community of rare fish enthusiasts collects endangered species of freshwater fish from lakes and springs around the world, ...

The most dangerous parts of a supernova explosion are the outputs like X-rays and gamma rays. Even though they only share a ...

The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth 250 million years ago may not have been quite so disastrous for plants, ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

The California Academy of Sciences used genetic testing to identify a blue butterfly species similar to the Xerces species ...

The majority of the threatened species do not grow in environmentally protected locations. Tropical plants in the genus ...