In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their ...

Funky fish, psychedelic spiders and fluffy gibbons are among the highly threatened animals conservationists say need to be ...

Growing up, I vividly remember reading through nature-related magazines, fascinated by the vast numbers of creatures inhabiting our planet. I spent summers at my grandmother’s West Virginia home ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

While it is always a shame to see more animals go extinct, the report did include some good news. The IUCN noted that the ...

One of North America’s most endangered species is getting a new lease on life thanks to technological innovations. This past ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

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 ...

Most snakes in New Hampshire are relatively harmless. You leave them alone, and they'll leave you alone while keeping your yard's ecosystem in balance (think fewer rodents). But, there are one species ...