Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

Extinction is rarely a moment. It is a process that unfolds offstage, marked by missed sightings, thinning records, and the ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

P. furnessi is considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List. Their current ...

Conservationists are racing to save the manumea, a chicken-sized bird that lives only on two Samoan islands, from extinction ...

The cleansing of the island has, to the delight of conservationists and scientists working on the project, resulted in a ...

A once-abundant native species has been declared extinct in Australia after decades without a trace, raising urgent questions ...

A new study on African penguins links food shortages and fishing to adult survival losses, raising the risk of extinction.

Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, ...

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or ...