In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...

For the first time, Colossal BioSciences unveiled its Dallas labs where it is spending millions of dollars researching how to ...

A critically endangered monkey has given birth just months after pioneering surgery saved her from undergoing an amputation. Masaya, a 15-year-old roloway monkey at Chester Zoo, had a golf-ball-sized ...

Having failed to meet a deadline and getting sued for it, a federal agency Wednesday agreed to decide whether to list a rare ...

Fiona Pardington hopes an exhibition of her images of New Zealand’s extinct and endangered birds will encourage debate, as the nation weighs its environmental responsibilities.

So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of ...

On March 16, 2026, the Department of the Interior announced a rare meeting of the Endangered Species Committee (ESC or ...

Environmentalist and conservationist organizations are lambasting the Trump administration for considering circumventing the Endangered Species Act to clear a pathway for increased offshore oil and ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

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 ...

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...

What is the Endangered Species Act, and why am I hearing more about it now? The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was passed by Congress in 1973 to protect species classified as endangered and their ...