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

Somewhere on Earth, species are vanishing faster than ever. The 2025 IUCN Red List update revealed that nearly 49,000 species ...

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 ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to new research published Wednesday. “Huge rivers like the ...

Protecting animals against environmental changes, poachers, and other dangers is vital yet challenging work. And in recent years, things have seemed dismal. The International Union for Conservation of ...

The Trump administration wants to make economic impacts a factor in what was previously a science-based decision on what's ...

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

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

Erecting the fence around the Western River Refuge, however, has seen the number of dunnarts increase between 90 and 100%, ...