With each passing year, species across the United States face an uncertain future. As habitats continue to be destroyed, ...

The conservation value of de-extinction lies not in populating landscapes with proxy extinct animals, but in developing ...

Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off ...

The Endangered Species Act, however, goes way beyond. The act also protects animals of growing rarity the average person never heard of, birds people know little about, and plants with names they ...

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 ...

A world where extinct animals are brought back for the betterment of both the planet and mankind may seem like science ...

Colossal Biosciences aims to freeze millions of animal samples in the hope of saving endangered species, or one day resurrecting them.

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Genetic research uncovers two hidden pangolin species, revealing how illegal wildlife trade may be driving unknown animals ...

We are on the cusp of losing the integrity of one of the most significant environmental acts ever enacted in the United States. Why should this matter? As the Pulitzer Prize-winning evolutionary ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

They're now listed as threatened, which offers special protections for the charismatic big cats and their habitats.