Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

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, ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social behavior. A new international study shows that this vital sense leaves a ...

Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? CU Boulder environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated ...

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 ...

More than 47,000 species are currently threatened with extinction. Just last year, the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List reported five newly extinct species and five others moved ...