The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from ...

A grim report highlights the extinction of five species between 2019 and 2024, including the Chinese Paddlefish and the Poʻouli bird. Habitat loss, disease, and dam construction are major factors ...

This now-extinct animal stood about 2.5 feet tall at the shoulder and had notable long, curved horns. Sadly, the bluebuck disappeared around the year 1800, mainly because of overhunting and having ...

Leopards — solitary, enigmatic, nocturnal predators with golden fur splashed with dark rosette spots — have the widest range ...

Photographs of a leopard snapped by camera traps in forests in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts have raised hopes among conservationists working to save the critically endangered species.

Although we have many problems with critically endangered species today, it used to be a lot worse. Before the times of ...

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

Citing the flower’s growing risk of extinction, officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this week announced a proposal to list the ghost orchid as an endangered species.

Of the 534 species represented, 61 are classed as threatened — these threatened species accounted for nearly 6,000 trees on the list. Moreover, eight tree species were found only on temple grounds.

Hundreds of endangered fish that were rescued from their habitat due to the Palisades Fire have returned home after being held for several months at two local aquariums. The endangered northern ...

India has launched an investigation after an endangered tigress and her four cubs were found dead in a protected forest in the southern state of Karnataka, an official said Friday.