Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

The endangered Malayan tapirs died within a short period of each other, prompting an internal investigation. The zoo ...

Somewhere on Earth, species are vanishing faster than ever. The 2025 IUCN Red List update revealed that nearly 49,000 species ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the birth is sparking joy, infant mountain gorillas are vulnerable, and twins can be twice as hard for a mother to take ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

What makes this discovery so remarkable, is that this species was considered extinct in South Australia. The closest known ...