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 ...

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

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 ...

“It was there in front of me all the time, this icon of extinction ... a column exploring the strange and fascinating world of animals and the ways in which we appreciate, imperil and ...

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 ...

(CNN) — The age of de-extinction may soon be a reality. Advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology are making resurrecting animals once lost to this world a tangible prospect.

While around 10% of all species depend on freshwater ... others live in rivers and streams across the world where around 30% are threatened with extinction. The leading threat to decapods is ...