The story of the Galápagos giant tortoise is one of exploitation, extinction and an extraordinary conservation comeback.

A $4 million partnership between the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Colossal Foundation will use advanced technology to ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there's a hidden ...

“Its distinctive skull suggests it used fast and powerful bites to catch small and agile prey...,” said Love Dalén, professor ...

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 ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

Last week, The Guardian dropped the news that this common, bright blue and black garden-dweller could be extinct within the next 30–40 years thanks to climate damage. It is quite frankly terrifying ...

California is taking legal action to preserve the Endangered Species Act, which has helped save condors and sea otters from ...

(Neil D'Cruze/University of Helsinki) Earth's current mass extinction has our fingerprints all over it. Humans are decimating other species in a wide range of ways, and the problem is still getting ...

Two lawsuits seek to reverse the Trump administration’s moves to open the habitats of imperiled wildlife to commercial ...