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

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social ...

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

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

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

Arian Wallach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Erick Lundgren receives funding from the Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Alberta ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A massive breakthrough was announced this week by the ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

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