In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

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 ...

Every third Friday of May is Endangered Species Day. More than 900 known species are already extinct to date, while at least 28,500 others are listed as endangered or critically endangered by the IUCN ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect the LeConte’s thrasher under the Endangered Species Act. LeConte’s thrashers, native ...

The released birds are the closest living relatives of the extinct Arabian ostrich. The flightless animals' return is part of ...

At least 35,765 species are threatened with extinction. An update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species has declared 31 animal and plant species ...

After more than a year, the tiny endangered desert pupfish have returned to Ayer Lake at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. The fish were moved out of the lake as crews worked on the dam that creates the lake.