Yuvi Agarwal, 12, founded the nonprofit Wild Tunes in 2023 and has enlisted about 100 volunteer musicians to play in animal ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

U.S. officials proposed Monday to protect the pangolin, a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales, under the Endangered ...

Scavengers often get a bad rap — hyena giggles are nefarious, crows gather in “murders” and the naked necks of vultures speak for themselves. But the bodies of the dead don’t just disappear.

While Gigantopithecus faced extinction due to environmental changes, today’s primates confront human-induced threats. As of 2021, all great ape species, including chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, ...

Perhaps the most well-known extinction is the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event, which took place 66 million years ago. We all know about it because it was the event that wiped out the ...

Protecting animals against environmental changes, ... Red List of Threatened Species is the world’s most comprehensive list on the global extinction risk of animal, fungus, ...

In just the last decade, the U.S. has officially declared five species extinct, marking a tragic loss for biodiversity. Once a part of American ecosystems, these animals vanished due to habitat ...

While we can’t say exactly how many animal species have gone extinct in the past 125 years, it’s estimated that between 200 and 500 species have faced extinction in the past century. In the ...

A startling 24% of freshwater animals were at risk of extinction due to compounding threats from pollution, dams, water extraction, agriculture, invasive species, climate change and other disruptions.

Almost a quarter of freshwater animals, including crabs, crayfish, shrimp, damselfly and fish, are threatened of going extinct, according to a new, global study that was published on Wednesday.&nbs… ...