The 11 imperiled South Florida species face extinction-level threats from habitat-destroying development and sea-level rise, ...

Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists ...

One of the greatest conservation success stories begins with an extinction. The Lord Howe Island stick insect is an animal ...

Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off ...

The Center for Biological Diversity issued a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Service in federal district court over what they describe as a failure to finalize ...

Colossal Biosciences aims to freeze millions of animal samples in the hope of saving endangered species, or one day resurrecting them.

Siamese crocodiles were believed extinct until a small group was discovered in 2020. Thanks to locals in Laos, the population is soaring.

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

Teeth belonging to the fearsome creatures have been discovered throughout the state. Now, they're up for consideration by the ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Researchers at Oregon State University have collected new data about an elusive forest carnivore "renowned for its cuteness" ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.