In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their habitats were officially declared extinct on the International Union for ...

Somewhere on Earth, species are vanishing faster than ever. The 2025 IUCN Red List update revealed that nearly 49,000 species ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

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 ...

In the last ten years, at least 15 species have officially checked out, never to be seen again. It's ironic to think how these creatures once roamed the planet with us, but now, they're just part of ...

A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...