Rising human Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have renewed concern for nearby critically endangered ...

What if the past was not really gone forever? Creatures like the saber toothed tiger, the woolly mammoth, and the dodo bird once roamed Earth, but are now classified as extinct. In many cases, human ...

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 ...

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 ...

The thylacine died a year later, and although unverified wild sightings persisted for decades, the species is now considered ...

The milestone carries additional significance because the last Amur tiger cubs born at the Louisville Zoo were Irisa and Anya ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing seven species of pangolins—scaly, armadillo-like creatures found in Asia and Africa—as endangered. But why would a species that ...