On a lawn inside the Bronx Zoo, rows of headstones display multiple animal species, making for an eerie display during the ...

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 ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

Extinction is the irreversible loss of animal species that once lived on our planet. The rapid pace of human-driven habitat destruction, climate change, pollution, and poaching has led to the ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability, leading to the loss of a majority of animals present ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

Other benefactors include the far-sighted Englishman John Knowles, who established Britain’s first zoological collection ...

WASHINGTON— A new Center for Biological Diversity analysis identifies seven endangered animal species that would be pushed to ...

There are hopes the partnership will safeguard endangered species "for generations to come".