The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

With the effects of global warming and climate change, scientists and environmentalists alike are all increasingly worried about the extinction of multiple world species. Currently, there are at ...

From National Geographic’s Photo Ark and Joel Sartore, Vanishing: The World’s Most Vulnerable Animals ... all the way down to disaster? My goal is to get the public to care about the ...

Feb. 4, 2025 — This week, the world's governments are meeting in Geneva for the 78th meeting of the Standing Committee of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to produce kangaroo embryos through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), an important ...

Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth Shapiro and her team are attempting a feat straight out of science ...

Nearly a quarter of the world's freshwater species are at risk of extinction, according to new research. A detailed extinction assessment of more than 23,000 species of freshwater fauna by the ...

Scientists have found a new monkey species! That's the good news. The bad news is that only a couple of hundred are left.

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...

Each time a species goes extinct, the world around us unravels a bit. The consequences are profound, not just in those places and for those species but for all of us. These are tangible consequential ...