Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

Nowadays, we're pretty confident about how the dinosaurs died out, but there are still other extinctions throughout Earth's ...

According to Kokotajlo, one of the core challenges is AI alignment, i.e., ensuring that advanced systems adopt goals and values aligned with human interests.

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on ...

Fewer than 100 Rice’s whales remain in the Gulf. Trump admin's drilling plans could push them to extinction. (AP Photo) ...

In 1991, botanists Calaway Dodson and Alwyn Gentry advanced a striking proposition. Surveying a rapidly deforested ridge in western Ecuador, they suggested that dozens of plant species known only from ...

A pair of Hawaiian crows raised in captivity have been prepared for release in Maui to reverse their extinction in the wild after disappearing nearly 30 years ago.

An ex-OpenAI researcher has warned that rapid advances in AI could pose a serious threat to humanity within just five years.

Tracing the soul of a city through its homes, this column looks at houses as living archives of the millions of people who ...

From war games flagged as reality to solar storms, here are some of the world's most intense close calls in recent history.

Insects first took to the skies about 350 million years ago, some 200 million years before birds first flapped their wings. By the end of the Carboniferous period, 300 million years ago, some flying ...