Alex McGlynn, who has been fishing for 20 years, said he had never seen a tope shark off the Welsh coast - with the species listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List ...

More than one-third of species that eat some amount of carrion are threatened or declining, a new analysis finds, and that ...

Typically, females appear less colorful than males; this adaptation helps protect females from predators. Such an adaptation ...

A small team of biologists at Stanford University has found evidence that approximately one-third of all vertebrate ...

Koalas have a reputation as one of the dimmest mammals currently living, and given their preferred food source, it's a wonder ...

Experts from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have analyzed how targeted management of invasive ...

Even if you don’t know what the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List is off the top of your head, I can pretty much guarantee you’ve heard of it: the IUCN keeps tabs on ...

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s red list of fungi species now stands at 1,300 after an assessment of 482 new species. The fungal kingdom is the world’s ...

The finding comes in the latest update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) red list of threatened species, which also reveals that frankincense trees face an ...

At least 411 fungi face extinction among the 1,300 varieties whose conservation status is well understood, according to the latest update of the IUCN's authoritative "Red List of Threatened Species".

The IUCN Red List is the gold standard in terms of telling us which species are at greatest risk of extinction, which is why BirdLife contributes to the IUCN Red List as the global Red List Authority ...

HANGZHOU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, Alipay Ant Forest and IUCN are ...