A large fossil study shows young shark and ray species vanish faster, while older species stay stable over time.

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A third of shark and ray species have been overfished to near extinction, according to an eight-year ...

Whether a species has just freshly emerged, or it has been around for millions of years does not dictate its vulnerability. This has been the assumption of an old debate on whether species' age plays ...

ANN ARBOR—Mass extinctions, like lotteries, result in a multitude of losers and a few lucky winners. This is the story of one of the winners, a small, shell-crushing predatory fish called Fouldenia, ...

Scientists have uncovered new details about the vulnerability of ancient shark and ray species, showing a long history of extinction events and highlighting the need for conservation efforts.

Ray-finned fish, now the most diverse group of backboned animals, were not as hard hit by a mass extinction event 360 million years ago as scientists previously thought. Ray-finned fish, now the most ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion known in the universe, may have triggered ...

Among sharks and rays, species within the first four million years of existence are significantly more likely to go extinct than older species, according to a study led by researchers from the ...