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 ...

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

Possible factors in the extinction of many large animals include include hunting and climate stability since the last ice age ...

East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...

One of California’s most iconic animals is in trouble. A preliminary tally of monarch butterflies that spend the winter along ...

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 ...

The Andean condor has been threatened with extinction for decades. At one time, the condor was considered extinct in ...

The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, show that woolly rhinos remained "genetically healthy" until the end of the last Ice Age. Scientists say the species therefore ...

There are many cute endangered species, and sadly their charm endangers them even more, like these 25 cutest animals that are ...

Dire wolves were massive and highly intelligent animals nearly the size of a small horse, capable of ripping a man’s arm off as easily as a dog kills a rat. They lived in cold regions in a place ...