Sharks and rays (which are closely related) are among the most severely impacted species within the ocean’s accelerating ecological crisis. More than 35% are now threatened with extinction, largely ...

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to ...

Proactive measures supporting marine biodiversity create operational efficiencies and attract commercial incentives, ...

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) have named the first World ...

Gene editing’s real value is not in re-creating copies of long-extinct species like dire wolves, but instead using it to ...

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the ...

Ahead of this week's crucial United Nations ocean conference, federal Environment Minister Murray Watt promised that by 2030, ...

Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of Time magazine or a photo ...

Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, is in crisis. From bees in Colorado to Hawaiian honeycreepers and Australian bushfires, climate change and human activity are pushing species to extinction ...

On a rainy morning eight years ago, a group of nature enthusiasts woke up early on a Sunday morning to look for birds. The gathering, organised by the Society for the Conservation of Nature of Liberia ...

As world leaders gather to address a global marine crisis at the UN Ocean Conference, scientists from the Woods Hole ...

For millions of years, large herbivores like mastodons and giant deer shaped the Earth's ecosystems, which astonishingly ...