Unfortunately, one million endangered species could become extinct. On World Wildlife Day, learn who is at risk and how to ...

Other benefactors include the far-sighted Englishman John Knowles, who established Britain’s first zoological collection ...

There are hopes the partnership will safeguard endangered species "for generations to come".

Extinction is the irreversible loss of animal species that once lived on our planet. The rapid pace of human-driven habitat ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

WASHINGTON— A new Center for Biological Diversity analysis identifies seven endangered animal species that would be pushed to ...

American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia for 35 years, ...

A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability, leading to the loss of a majority of animals present ...

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, ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...