Other benefactors include the far-sighted Englishman John Knowles, who established Britain’s first zoological collection ...

Extinction is the irreversible loss of animal species that once lived on our planet. The rapid pace of human-driven habitat ...

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 ...

Hidden in Bolivia’s seasonal wetlands, a small fish that scientists had written off as extinct for more than two decades has ...

Growing up, I vividly remember reading through nature-related magazines, fascinated by the vast numbers of creatures ...

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, ...

The Chathams sit roughly 785 kilometers (488 miles) east of mainland New Zealand and have long been a crucible of endemic ...

From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this documentary are simply astounding ...

Nature is endowed with innumerable creatures, and each one is unique in its own way. Among them, many species across the ...

WASHINGTON— A new Center for Biological Diversity analysis identifies seven endangered animal species that would be pushed to ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

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 ...