University of Cambridge researchers have developed a new way to measure the impact of our food production on other species' ...

“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy Fraenkel, executive secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data.

Few would doubt that more and more animals and plants are currently going extinct. One analysis comes to a different ...

The planet is on the cusp of triggering the sixth mass extinction event. Conserving a small percentage of land could make all ...

St. Paul’s Como Park Zoo announced some unhappy news Thursday morning that triggered a social media outpouring of ...

Recent record-breaking ocean temperatures have killed off so many elkhorn and staghorn corals, they are on the verge of disappearing completely, scientists have found.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Here's something to ponder as you savor that morning cup of coffee. New research shows 60 percent of coffee species found in the wild could soon go extinct. Researchers in the UK ...

In New Zealand, conservationists are looking at new ways to protect the country's native bird species, some of which were ...

After his company, Colossal Biosciences, successfully revived the dire wolf from extinction, he's ready to continue to change ...

For almost 200 years, no one knew where the last living great auks were. Using DNA testing, one of them was found in ...