Australia’s biobanks store everything from seeds of native plants to the cells and tissue of threatened animal species ...

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 ...

True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time ...

Rare species face extinction risk from some deep-sea mining, scientists say - The process could have a devastating effect on ...

The Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted in 1972, has prevented the extinction of marine mammal species in U.S. waters. Proposed legislation threatens to weaken the act by restricting scientific data ...

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 “Mexican walking fish” faces extinction in the wild due to pollution and urban expansion in Mexico City’s lakes. Once revered by the Aztecs, now it survives mostly in labs. Found in Southeast Asia ...

Twenty million years ago, the Swiss Plateau region, or Mittelland, was an ocean in which dolphins swam. Researchers at the University of Zurich's Paleontological Institute have now discovered two ...

The removal of even one individual — especially a reproductive-age female — can have significant and lasting consequences for ...