For the fourth time in its history, the Endangered Species Committee met Tuesday to decide whether to grant an exception to ...

More than 99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct - and today, many scientists believe we are driving a sixth mass extinction. From the baiji dolphin of China’s Yangtze River to the ...

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 ...

Five “missing” bird species — not seen, heard or documented in the wild for a decade or more — were “found” in 2025, ...

Roman Uchytel is a Ukrainian paleontologist and graphic designer who recreates prehistoric fauna, providing an interesting scale comparison of our ancestors' features. He contrasts the sizes of ...

Extinction usually feels final. Once a species disappears, there is rarely a second chance. But a small number of animals managed to survive when everything seemed stacked against them, often because ...

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 ...

A federal court has overturned four key provisions of regulations that weakened the Endangered Species Act, issued by the Trump administration in 2019 and retained under the Biden administration.

Citing the Iran war, the administration let oil companies take actions that are likely to threaten an endangered whale.

Trump administration officials are exempting oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act.

The "God Squad" voted unanimously to remove protections for Gulf animals, for "security." It's not the first time federal ...