The Oakland Zoo, in a collaborative effort with the Mountain Lakes Research Group, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based company, is using gene-editing technology to bring back extinct species and help save ...

Extinction is an overwhelming concept, difficult to grasp in its enormity and finality. Thousands of species are barreling ...

Bulborox, small-bulb orchid, dwarf date palm, chaulmoogra, and bashpata are all targeted for recovery in this project. The ...

Learn more about the new species uncovered from the Permian Period and what they can tell us about the world during the Great ...

A new study shows night lizards lived around the Gulf of Mexico before and after the asteroid impact that ended the dinosaurs ...

In the vast, arid landscapes of South Australia's northeast, on the lands of the Adnyamathanha and Wilyakali, a surprising ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs, along ...

Congress is working on a proposal that would gut the Marine Mammal Protection Act and erase legal protections for dolphins, ...

According to a global assessment that reviewed 8,000 species of amphibians, 41% are now being threatened with extinction. Compared to 2004, about 39% of the species were threatened.

The IUCN calculated in March that 27,159 species are threatened, endangered or extinct in the wild out of nearly 100,000 species biologists examined in depth. That includes 1,223 mammal species ...

The extinction of more and more of the Earth’s species, though, may be just a prelude to our own. “Racing Extinction” is airing worldwide on Dec. 2 in some 240 countries and territories with ...