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 ...

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

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

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

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

“The proposed changes, coupled with the mass firing of dedicated staff at US Fish and Wildlife and the National Park Service, put the fate of species like Pacific salmon, the ghost orchid, and the red ...

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 ...

The Trump administration has proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act to reduce federal regulations. One proposal would eliminate automatic protections for threatened species, known as the ...