While it is always a shame to see more animals go extinct, the report did include some good news. The IUCN noted that the ...

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 ...

The clawed creature — named for its elongated forehead and flat skulls — was even labeled “possibly extinct” within Thailand, ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

This proposal has drawn criticism from legal scholars and conservationists, who argue that habitat modification poses a major ...

One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many ...

Migratory land animals encounter manmade barriers such as roads. A study reports negative impacts of an industrial road on ...