In 2025, the IUCN Red List officially declared several animal and plant species extinct, highlighting global biodiversity ...

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

There are many cute endangered species, and sadly their charm endangers them even more, like these 25 cutest animals that are ...

Invasive species often disrupt ecosystems, but in some cases the damage goes much further. Certain introduced animals have directly driven native species to extinction, leaving permanent gaps in ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

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

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

Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

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 ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Colossal Biosciences, the genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth, has actually already brought back one of its extinct Ice Age cohabitants: the dire wolf. The Dallas, ...