From bald eagles to grizzly bears, many iconic American species at risk of extinction have bounced back thanks to the ...

The Trump administration reversed decades of longstanding environmental law protecting endangered species on Friday, opening ...

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 ...

Scientists believed the tiny Cozumel fox had vanished from the planet, with nothing left but ancient bone fragments to prove it ever existed. Then a disoriented animal turned up along a coastal ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

Throughout history, some extinct animals have emerged as formidable hunters that roamed the Earth with unmatched ferocity, while others have taken their place as gentle giants, embodying grace and ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record is formed. They investigated how dinosaur and mammal bones are ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...