They'd been on our planet for millions of years, but 2018 was the year several species officially vanished forever. Three bird species went extinct last year, scientists said, two of which are ...

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A new study notes that animals and plants are dying at the fastest rate since the dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago, with more than 500 species expected to be extinct in the next 20 years.

Last Thursday, the Trump administration proposed cutting provisions in the Endangered Species Act (ESA)—the law protecting plants and animals threatened by extinction.

Experts at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute care for endangered species on 32,000 sprawling acres in Northern ...

Nearly 600 Plant Species Have Gone Extinct in Last 250 Years—More Than Twice the Number of Birds, Mammals and Amphibians Combined ...

These plants were brought to the Botanical Survey of India and there it was identified by Amber Srivastava as Brachystelma parviflorum, a species thought to be extinct by scientists 186 years ago.