While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

Turtle doves are being pushed closer to the brink of extinction in England by invasive deer eating their hedgerow habitats.

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Andean condors are the biggest raptors in the world — and are vital to their ecosystem ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Death has come knocking one last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and almost two dozen other birds, fish and other species — the U.S. government is declaring them ...

A shy, ferret-sized predator called the coastal marten has been quietly hanging on in the forests of southern Oregon and northern California.

If granted protections, the species would be the first to be protected under the current Trump administration.

The number of the western hoolock gibbons — the only non-human ape species in India — has fallen drastically from around ...

A new study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa challenges a long-standing scientific narrative about the decline of ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...