Across the globe, a small number of animal species are now so rare that only a few individuals remain in the wild. Habitat ...

East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...

Andean condors were once considered pests and killed on sight. Today, thanks to conservation efforts, these birds are making ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

In a perfect world, we'd still be co-existing with the dodo, woolly mammoth, and quagga, but sadly, these are among the 900+ extinct animal species. Climate change, pollution, and human predation are ...

Scientists are cataloguing life on Earth at a pace that would have seemed impossible a generation ago, yet a growing share of ...

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 ...

The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of ...

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 proposed legislation was sparked by the capture of a manta ray. The measure would ban the seizure of threatened or ...