Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, ...

Quick Take Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, died, underscoring extinction and the emotional toll on caretakers.

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or ...

Whether a species has just freshly emerged, or it has been around for millions of years does not dictate its vulnerability.

The Trump administration wants to roll back protections for endangered and threatened species viewed as detrimental to ...

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the charge, has made ...

A polar bear stood outside the Department of the Interior’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Thursday with a message: “Stop ...

The Christmas Island shrew is thought to be at least the third mammal species to go extinct on the island as a direct result ...

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 ...

Dire wolves were massive and highly intelligent animals nearly the size of a small horse, capable of ripping a man’s arm off as easily as a dog kills a rat. They lived in cold regions in a place ...

Proposed changes by the Trump administration to the federal Endangered Species Act are raising alarm among conservationists ...

Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only ...