The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

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 ...

Five new animal species that camouflage themselves as excrement or bark reveal some of what still remains hidden in the world ...