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

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that will have to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

Colossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent dire wolf project was controversial, and moa are an even more ambitious target ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

At least 35,765 species are threatened with extinction. An update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species has declared 31 animal and plant species ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...