This particular Mixodectes pungens specimen represents a mature adult that weighed about three pounds, lived in trees, feasted on ... Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids ...

Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris amoyensis (critically endangered, possibly extinct in the wild), has been seen for more than a decade.

The Partula tohiveana snail has been reclassified as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List after being previously declared extinct in the wild, according to a release from the Zoological ...

The number of fungi species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has surpassed 1,000, confirming that deforestation, ...

Researchers think woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) went extinct due to a combination of climate change, human impacts and inbreeding depression.(Image credit: Aunt_Spray/Getty Images ...

New baby name trends emerge every year, with some being more predictable than others. However, parents may be taken aback to discover which names are on the brink of disappearing. The experts at ...

A total of around 100 mature trees were found growing in two village land forest reserves surrounded by abandoned croplands, and initial assessments suggest some of them could be up to 3,000 years ...

Conservation International’s Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) spent three weeks trudging through the Mosquitia rainforest in Honduras and found a treasure trove of rare and endangered species — some of ...

Hundreds of ancient fynbos species could regrow and restore a former pine plantation on Cape Town’s Table Mountain, but only ...

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...