Human interactions have driven many animal species to extinction around the world. Whether through habitat destruction, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ‘missing’ insect that is raising alarm bells about one of world’s best biodiversity hotspots - Research points to ...

Last week, The Guardian dropped the news that this common, bright blue and black garden-dweller could be extinct within the next 30–40 years thanks to climate damage. It is quite frankly terrifying ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

On the second floor of a sleek but unremarkable office building just west of downtown Dallas, Texas, an animatronic white wolf stands atop a promontory, slowly surveying the vast entry area for ...

A Dallas biotech company is working on something that sounds straight out of science fiction: bringing back extinct animals. The company just opened its new global headquarters in Dallas, where more ...

The bandicoot was extinct in the wild in 1991, but the marsupial has now been “bred for survival” and will be released across ...