More than 47,000 species face extinction today, a figure that grows daily as habitats shrink and human pressures intensify.

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

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

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their ...

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 ...

Hidden in Bolivia’s seasonal wetlands, a small fish that scientists had written off as extinct for more than two decades has ...

The Trump administration has proposed big changes to federal protections for threatened and endangered species, habitat, and ...

The Trump Administration is proposing new changes to the Endangered Species Act. Conservation organizations are concerned ...

The Trump administration is proposing several changes to the Endangered Species Act that conservationists say could have ...

On Nov. 21, 2025, the Trump administration published four proposed rules designed to reinstate most of the 2019 regulations ...

Critically endangered animals are being advertised for sale as bushmeat on TikTok, a new study finds. The work, published ...