In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

Explore keystone species, extinction, and wildlife crime and learn how you can help preserve biodiversity through World ...

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 ...

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

Republican bills that would allow the endangered Mexican gray wolf to be killed and no longer be considered an endangered ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

A dozen fish pulled from a South African river sparked years of debate before being confirmed as a new species.

The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

As the Atlantic warms, many fish along the east coast of North America have moved northward to keep within their preferred temperature range. Black sea bass, for instance, have shifted hundreds of ...

Area children are invited to explore the world of endangered wildlife during “Helping Endangered Species with Joys of Nature” ...

University of Queensland researchers say Australia's reptiles are at risk of extinction because a little understood fungus is ...