More than a quarter of all animals, plants and fungi assessed are at risk of extinction, according to the latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Recent animals extinctions are a warning that we need to change the way we live as if we don't me may loose some of the planets most iconic animals. We are currently in a mass extinction event as ...

The hog deer, once thought to be extinct on the island, is quietly making a comeback in the country's southwest, as Mongabay ...

Survival of snow leopard populations could be "precarious" in the future due to the way the elusive mountain cats have evolved, scientists recently discovered.

Once upon a time, the likes of Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg imagined a world where scientists on the cutting edge of genetic research pieced together bits of DNA, both ancient and modern, to ...

Tapanuli orangutans are the world's most endangered great ape. Fewer than 800 remain, all previously thought to be in their native Indonesia. But now an Indian zoo says it has one. An Indian court ...

Colossal Biosciences opens global HQ with 100 scientists focused on "de-extinction," using CRISPR to revive species like the ...

A "most remarkable" monster's fossilized remains from Jurassic Germany is a never-before-seen species, a new study reports. The marine reptile, which swam in prehistoric oceans about 183 million years ...