By Shreya Dasgupta Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

At least 35,765 species are threatened with extinction. An update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species has declared 31 animal and plant species ...

The Christmas Island shrew is thought to be at least the third mammal species to go extinct on the island as a direct result ...

New research identifies 10,443 critically endangered species worldwide, with effective protection strategies available if funding and political will follow. More than 1,500 species, or 15% of the ...

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer than the rings of Saturn, and longer than most of the other life on ...

Arian Wallach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Erick Lundgren receives funding from the Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Alberta ...