In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their ...

Tigers once roamed from Turkey to China and as far north as Russia and south to Indonesia. Today, they inhabit around 6% of their ancient grounds and are on the brink of extinction. These beautiful ...

Imagine your home slowly vanishing beneath your feet; that’s exactly what’s happening to animals all over the world right now. A gentle giant of a problem is brewing across our planet, and it’s not ...

There are over 150,000 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. Of those species, over 42,000 are threatened with extinction. On that list are 17,903 marine species that ...

An Instagram post about the last two northern white rhinos references a scenario conservationists have warned us about for ...

On Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady River, fishers tap the side of their boats and wait. If they’re lucky, a gray dolphin with a rounded head and smirk appears. These are Irrawaddy dolphins—social, intelligent ...

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 ...

A new University of Michigan study has found that higher levels of biodiversity—the enormous variety of life on Earth and the species, traits and evolutionary history they represent—appear to reduce ...

A trio of researchers with the Alexander Center for Applied Population Biology, Lincoln Park Zoo, has discovered some of the traits that many species of plants and animals facing extinction have in ...

The horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is often described as a "living fossil," a species that has endured for over 450 million years. It outlasted the mass extinctions and dramatic shifts in Earth's ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.