For the last 10,000 years, thousands of species have perished from the Holocene extinction event, which is still ongoing.

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out ...

Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in North America.

In two new studies, researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, have shed light on how interactions between predators and prey influenced the ...

From Ireland's last Great Auk to a fish thought to have been extinct for 70 million years — there's so much to discover in ...

What happens when a species has not been seen by anyone for decades? Environmentalists think of these as "lost species." We ...

Gene-edited animals or plants wouldn’t have a chance if released into a barren habitat or a poaching hotspot. Genomic tools ...

“However, the fact that 25% of the known species of this genus have become extinct in the last 50 years is alarming and suggests that even those species that could be classified as of least ...

Rediscovery of world's smallest snake, Barbados threadsnake, sparks hope for wildlife protection on Caribbean island.

Al Hicks, former DEC wildlife biologist, talks about endangered animals and climate change in Bolton Landing in late June.

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Extinction is an overwhelming concept, difficult to grasp in its enormity and finality. Thousands of species are barreling ...