The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

There are over 150,000 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. Of those species, over 42,000 are threatened with extinction. On that list are 17,903 marine species that ...

Tigers once roamed from Turkey to China and as far north as Russia and south to Indonesia. Today, they inhabit around 6% of their ancient grounds and are on the brink of extinction. These beautiful ...

Imagine your home slowly vanishing beneath your feet; that’s exactly what’s happening to animals all over the world right now. A gentle giant of a problem is brewing across our planet, and it’s not ...

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or ...

ANDERSON — There is no activity that coincides with summer quite like catching lightning bugs, also known as fireflies. Experts have been noticing fewer lightning bugs in the area, leading some to ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

A trio of researchers with the Alexander Center for Applied Population Biology, Lincoln Park Zoo, has discovered some of the traits that many species of plants and animals facing extinction have in ...

For most of human history, extinction has been understood as an immutable fact of nature—a one-way door that, once closed, could never be reopened. Species disappear, their genetic innovations vanish ...

MISSOURI, USA — Lights in the Midwest's summer nights have grown dimmer over the past decades. The glowing flicks of fireflies, or lightning bugs, trigger nostalgia and deeply held childhood memories ...

Critics of proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act say the move could affect efforts to save species facing extinction Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Dire wolves, the canine companions from Game of Thrones and an extinct species of the real world, are back, but how did they make their return? A new documentary plans to reveal the scientific ...