According to a recent study by archaeologists, it has been found that the early humans, who occupied the Indonesian island of Flores, were obliterated by climate change. The study was published ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

The Apennine brown bear (Ursus arctos marsicanus) is an isolated population found in Central Italy. Previous research ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched as it may seem.

Indeed, recent studies have indicated that the humble honey bee possesses a remarkable talent for mathematics and can even ...

A new study says the flooding that killed more than 1,000 people has also likely killed dozens of a critically endangered ...

Whether a species has just freshly emerged, or it has been around for millions of years does not dictate its vulnerability.

In 2003, bones pulled from a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores surprised scientists worldwide. The remains belonged to ...

Sorgen, a longtime activist whose first protests were against the Vietnam War, was going to block an entrance to the base ...

The Apennine brown bear is a small population found only in central Italy, with a long history of closeness to human ...

Polar bears lose sea ice due to climate change, forcing them to fast longer and lose body fat, leading to emaciation. The ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became ...