Thylacines — marsupials known as Tasmanian tigers — were declared extinct decades ago, but efforts to find one in the wild ...

Pterodactyls (Pterodactylus antiquus) are extinct flying reptiles. They lived from the Late Jurassic period, about 150 ...

In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite ...

Don’t be afraid: of all of the snake species in Alabama, only six are venomous. Three of those six venomous species are rattlesnakes: the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, the timber rattlesnake, and ...

"Finding these three individuals [at a new location] is already a good sign that the species still exists," Hajaniaina ...

A new stretch of border wall will soon be built through the San Rafael Valley, southeast Arizona's last major open space for ...

Small and stocky birds perch, hunched over, on the treetops and branches of Lake Okeechobee on the edge of Florida’s swampy ...

Scientists in the Columbia, Missouri, lab have studied the relationship between animals, toxic chemicals and ecosystems since the 1960s. Today, research of PFAS, invasive and endangered species and ...

Goldfarb spoke with Warner at the Mountain Words Festival in Crested Butte. They discussed threats to conservation, reasons ...

Deep in the misty highlands of northwestern Peru, scientists have uncovered three entirely new species of frogs.

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

More than 500 bird species face extinction within 100 years, warns new research Climate change and habitat loss could cause ...