Scientists across the globe are working to bring extinct species back to life. But do the facts measure up, or is this still ...

Przewalski's horses were once listed as extinct in the wild, with only a few remaining in captivity.

Among the victims was the Hula painted frog, an amphibian found only in northern Israel. Last seen in the 1950s, it had ...

According to the World Wildlife Fund, as much as 60% of the animal population of Earth has disappeared between 1970 and 2014. This shocking statistic is in no small part down to human interference, ...

Social media has become a single global marketplace for the wild animal pet trade. The platforms are the marketplace, the ...

The U.S. Interior Department on Friday canceled a rule meant to protect plants and animals that are determined to be ...

From selfies to drones, humans are making life worse for wildlife — and risking their own ...

Life has colonised every corner of the planet by evolving ingenious survival strategies but these are increasingly being ...

For decades, field biologists managed only two direct sightings of the Amazon's most elusive canine, leaving scientists to wonder if the so-called ghost dog even existed in meaningful numbers. Now, 25 ...

Somewhere in the red dust of inland Australia, a small plant with woolly, bottlebrush-like flower spikes has been quietly growing for decades while the scientific world assumed it was gone for good.

Scientists have been able to isolate genetic material from the remains of animals that lived in South Africa during the last Ice Age, which refutes previous ideas about the rapid degradation of ...

The creatures, which weigh about the same as a small dog, have spiky black hair, orange-cream skin around their mouths and a ...