DHARMSALA, India, March 10 -- Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, told his followers Tuesday that the Tibetan culture, religion and identity face "extinction" and that residents of Tibet were living in "hell on earth."...

DHARMSALA, India, March 10 -- Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, told his followers Tuesday that the Tibetan culture, religion and identity face "extinction" and that residents of Tibet were living in "hell on earth."...

I am informed by Animal Planet that most animals that have ever lived have gone extinct. This looks like a very interesting series, and it raises an issue that I think should properly be part of any discussion of evolution: How and why do life forms go extinct? Here is one way of looking at it: How ...

Click to enlarge This is a joke, right? I mean, this can’t be serious. Is Joe Wurzelbacher now officially going by “Joe the Plumber”, like the Iron Sheik or some other WWF character? No wonder conservatism has lost its way. It’s become the political philosophy of idiots and c...

This rare bird, a Worcester's buttonquail, was photographed at a poultry market in the Philippines before being sold as food. Prior to the photograph being taken, the species had not been seen for several decades and was presumed to be extinct. Photograph by Arnel B. Telesforo The incident is remini...

Independent: The most popular theory for the cause of this mass extinction was first put forward by American scientist Paul Martin, nearly 40 years ago. He put it down to the arrival of Homo sapiens. In both America and Australia these mass mammal extinctions followed shortly after the arrival of th...

In the era of global warming, when many scientists say we are experiencing a human-caused mass extinction to rival the one that killed off the dinosaurs, one might think that the discovery of a host of new species would be cause for joy. Not entirely so, says Paul Ehrlich, co-author of an analysis o...

For a guy who likes to dress up like a cowboy and pretend he’s some champion of the common man, John Cornyn doesn’t know shit about agriculture. Here the big lunkhead decries a $150 million line item for honeybee insurance for farmers, displaying the characteristic ignorance of the Texas...

Telegraph UK is reporting that scientists have succeeded in using cloning technology to resurrect an extinct animal. Shortly before the Pyrenean Ibex or Bucardo was offically declared extinct in 2000, scientests preserved skin samples of the goat using liquid nitrogen. From that DNA, they were then ...

Over the last decade of my life I have been claiming the idea of thinking about humanity as one unit for my own. I think that if we don't learn to work together at this Homo sapiens species level we are certainly doomed to extinction. read more...