And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

Biologists have confirmed the existence of a 200-million-year-old species of egg-laying mammal that has been assumed to be extinct. Suspected footage of Zaglossus attenboroughi -- the long-beaked ...

Not all animals have the name recognition of a T. rex or a dodo. However, plenty of well-known animals have vanished from the ...

You are probably familiar with kangaroos. Wallabies, too, and most likely quokkas as well. Less famous are their small, endangered cousins, the bettongs. These little marsupials love to dig and have a ...

For over 2 million years, dire wolves roamed present-day North America until their extinction around 10,000 B.C. On Monday, a Dallas-based bioscience firm said it had brought the species back to life ...

Canada’s rarest mammal was on the brink of extinction but, in a remarkable conservation success story, it is on the road to recovery ...

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.

Arian Wallach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Erick Lundgren receives funding from the Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Alberta ...

Most conservation efforts are reactive. Typically, a species must reach threatened status before action is taken to prevent extinction, such as establishing protected areas. A new study published in ...

New research identifies 10,443 critically endangered species worldwide, with effective protection strategies available if funding and political will follow. More than 1,500 species, or 15% of the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...