Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

Officially declared extinct in 1936, the Tasmanian tiger — or thylacine — continues to haunt scientists and explorers who ...

The IUCN has updated its 'Red List', revealing that three species of Arctic seal have moved closer to extinction.

The world we share with countless species is growing smaller, and for some, it’s already too late. Over the past century, ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack Hatfield.

Each morning on the Kenyan savannah, the two last northern white rhinos stir beneath the acacias. As they graze under armed ...

His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

Human activity may be setting the stage for the largest extinction event since the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 ...