Unfortunately, as the world changes, some animals just can’t evolve quickly enough to make it, and they go extinct. This has ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

New research identifies 10,443 critically endangered species worldwide, with effective protection strategies available if funding and political will follow. More than 1,500 species, or 15% of the ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For ...

Arian Wallach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Erick Lundgren receives funding from the Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Alberta ...

As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology company ...

Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer than the rings of Saturn, and longer than most of the other life on ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.