Ardboe Galler/FacebookRaymond McElroy is pictured with the antlers and skull of an Irish elk that he found in Northern ...

Pallas Projects, Dublin ★★★★☆ Beginning in 2011, the Periodical Review series was designed to bring external peers – artis ...

When you’re as dead as a dodo, the sympathy only lasts a short while. A study of the public’s reaction to news of a species extinction shows that those using social media mourn their loss, but only ...

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It is known as one of the biggest shocks in the history of Irish League football. For some, it's perhaps the greatest of them all. The Irish Cup final of 1955 pitted an all-conquering, star ...

In these modern fables, human extinction is imagined in scientific terms, as the result of natural causes. But the fears they express are much older than science. The term apocalypse comes from an ...

To be considered active, a volcano must have erupted at some point during the Holocene, but dormant and extinct are a little harder to define. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, believes there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI could drive humanity to extinction within 30 years.

A snail may have been saved from the “edge of extinction” after more than 1,300 born in a world-first breeding programme from the UK were released into the wild. The pea-sized Desertas Island ...

More than 1,300 critically endangered Desertas Island snails were released into the wild after being rescued from the edge of extinction, with a little help from a team of conservationists from ...