Across continents and species, these photos from The Nature Photography Contest 2024 reveal how human hands now shape the ...

Imagine stepping into a hidden world where you can lock eyes with a snow leopard under the Northern Lights, hear the distant ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

The Trump administration plans to rewrite part of the Endangered Species Act that prohibits harming the habitats of ...

An in-depth assessment reveals that dozens of giant amphibians died on an ancient floodplain. Around 230 million years ago, ...

Each year, animals and plants are being lost to extinction. In fact, more than 160 species disappeared in the past decade alone. According to the World Wide Fund (WWF), the rapid loss of species we ...

The list of 10 most endangered rivers of 2025, according to the nonprofit American Rivers, includes the Mississippi River and the lower Rio Grande.

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.

Some species seem to live fast and die young. Others, though, “appear not to age,” says João Pedro de Magalhães, a molecular ...

The much-publicized introduction of genetically modified cubs that share features of extinct dire wolves sparked claims ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...