Science is well equipped to help us understand how dire the extinction crisis is. But whether we choose to act will come from ...

Instead of cloning the creature, however, scientists attempted to resurrect the quagga via “selective rebreeding” aka ...

After a species goes extinct, tweets referring to it explode ... a pattern seen across all the species studied. But what of those more obscure species, do we really care when bean snails no ...

Almost half of all warm-water species of coral are threatened with extinction -- and climate change is the chief culprit, a ...

Despite their miniature brains, the ancient "Hobbits" do appear to have made stone tools. Utensils produced by the ...

A bird species found in mainland Europe and the Mediterranean is thought to be extinct globally by a coalition ... breeding and non-breeding ranges have all proved unsuccessful.

A 13-year conservation effort has helped the critically endangered species make a comeback. In Cambodia, the crocodile is akin to China's giant pandas or India's tigers, and the animals are being ...

Craig Hilton-Taylor, head of the IUCN Red List, said: “Declaring a species Extinct on the IUCN Red List requires careful evaluation of all the evidence. “Based on the results of the paper ...

A bird species found in mainland Europe and the Mediterranean is thought to be extinct globally by a coalition ... breeding and non-breeding ranges have all proved unsuccessful.