The coastal marten is about the size of a ferret and lives in heavily wooded forests.

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Scientists from Oregon State University looked at coastal martens in the town of Klamath for three months ...

The smallest mammals on Earth are vanishing faster than most people realize, and the line between survival and oblivion has ...

The contents of an ancient wolf pup's stomach yields surprising clues into the genetic lineage of extinct species.

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

A shy, ferret-sized predator called the coastal marten has been quietly hanging on in the forests of southern Oregon and northern California.

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...