The Supreme Court once billed the Endangered Species Act as “the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of ...

From the woolly mammoth to the dodo, scientists are exploring cutting-edge genetics and cloning technologies that could potentially restore traits—or proxies—of animals that disappeared from Earth.

Nowadays, it feels like extinction headlines dominate conversations about wildlife, but there’s another set of stories that tells a different truth. Around the world, careful planning and policy ...

According to the World Wildlife Fund, as much as 60% of the animal population of Earth has disappeared between 1970 and 2014. This shocking statistic is in no small part down to human interference, ...

Why large numbers of reptile species face extinction and what that means for our ecosystem. Globally, about 20 percent of reptile species are facing the threat of extinction. That ...

Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colossal Biosciences, the company that produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves, is expanding to a half-dozen species that it ...