New research shows that while many species have disappeared, extinctions of genera are very rare across plants and animals.

Hundreds of species have gone extinct in recent centuries, but losses are few among larger classification levels, meaning we ...

A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that scientists have studied are threatened with extinction, meaning they are either vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered.

A new analysis suggests that recent extinctions have been rare, limited mostly to islands and slowing. But others argue this is all just semantics.

Bees. Among the most hardworking and organized insects in the entire world. They are appreciated and loved by doctors for the honey, wax, propolis they produce - all of which have helped people ...

Hundreds of species have gone extinct in recent centuries, but losses are few among larger classification levels, meaning we are not witnessing a mass extinction just yet, according to a study ...

The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that scientists have studied are threatened with ...

In 2021, a record 1,100 manatees died statewide, driven largely by seagrass loss. The following year a nonprofit group sued ...

In the nearly 50 years since the Endangered Species Act was enacted, the law has been credited with preventing hundreds of plants and animals from disappearing forever. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t ...

In California and Oregon, the species is believed to be functionally extinct, meaning the population has declined to the point that it is no longer serving an ecological role or function. In March, ...