The Trump administration is rolling back Endangered Species Act protections. Bees, birds and dozens of species could be in ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

More than 1,600 animal and plant species in the United States are listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered ...

A Nevada scientist is among a team from around the world who are now tracking species that are on their way to being extinct ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals ...

In 1981, a ranch dog dragged home a mysterious dead animal, setting off a chain of events that would determine whether an ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A Trump administration-driven rule change to the Endangered Species Act ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

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 ...

The study, published in Nature, was conducted by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission Coral Specialist Group.

Would you like to see a real, live wooly mammoth? Or how about a Tasmanian tiger in the flesh? Scientists have already finagled a few ways to resurrect extinct species from their evolutionary graves.

The egg, which belonged to a giant flightless bird that vanished centuries ago, was purchased by a company working with Peter Jackson to study the extinct species ...