The 11 imperiled South Florida species face extinction-level threats from habitat-destroying development and sea-level rise, ...

Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists ...

Colossal Biosciences aims to freeze millions of animal samples in the hope of saving endangered species, or one day resurrecting them.

Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off ...

The Center for Biological Diversity issued a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Service in federal district court over what they describe as a failure to finalize ...

Sometimes an animal long thought to be extinct reappears decades or centuries later, shocking scientists! Join Hank Green for ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in ...

Siamese crocodiles were believed extinct until a small group was discovered in 2020. Thanks to locals in Laos, the population is soaring.

Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service has been chronically slow to protect animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act, ...

"It seemed that the world had stopped turning its gears. Nature surprises us. Finding a species that hasn't been heard of in nearly two centuries doesn't happen every day. It was an incredible moment, ...