Each year on March 3, World Wildlife Day draws global attention to the plants and animals that make life on Earth possible.

Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.

Not all animals have the name recognition of a T. rex or a dodo. However, plenty of well-known animals have vanished from the ...

Cattle producers and landowners are celebrating after the lesser prairie-chicken was removed from the endangered species list ...

Area children are invited to explore the world of endangered wildlife during “Helping Endangered Species with Joys of Nature” ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

With each passing year, species across the United States face an uncertain future. As habitats continue to be destroyed, climate change destabilizes weather patterns, and invasive species take over ...

A dozen fish pulled from a South African river sparked years of debate before being confirmed as a new species.

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

Republican bills that would allow the endangered Mexican gray wolf to be killed and no longer be considered an endangered ...