Over the last 100,000 years, 64 percent of large animal species have gone extinct. The loss of large animals like mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths has been somewhat evenly spread over all ...

Scientists have uncovered 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils that hint at a mysterious, extinct marine animal equipped with ...

On the brink of extinction, just several hundred Hirola antelopes persist in Kenya, with a local leader spearheading their ...

Citizen science platforms, including iNaturalist, are leading to major new discoveries and are becoming crucial to the work ...

Almost two-thirds of Australia is privately owned. But most of our scientific understanding of how threatened species are ...

The white-tailed deer has become the symbol of many states, thanks to the heritage and culture tied to the animal.

“I will never forget that moment. I called out to the others. The little shrew looked like something we had only seen once ...

Freshwater extinctions rarely happen overnight, especially in a habitat as large as the Yangtze River. However, it’s still ...

A plant species presumed to be extinct for 58 years has been rediscovered in remote north Queensland after a horticulturalist ...

Plant species that was presumed to be extinct reappears after nearly six decades - Small Australian shrub with delicate pink ...

Scientists warn that a proposed expansion of Port Everglades could damage corals, including some of the only remaining ...