A new review has documented the remarkable journey of Australia's most critically endangered marsupial, the Gilbert's potoroo ...

There are only 10 or less of this little porpoise species left in the world. What can be done to save the vaquita?

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

Amazon Rainforest Inhabitants Lived Alongside Ice Age Creatures, Researchers Find Rock Paintings of Now-Extinct Animals In ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

There isn’t much data available to the wider public on the Calathus lundbladi ground beetle. This elusiveness is in no small part due to the little bug’s position on the International Union for ...

Biodiversity is declining across the planet, but what about in Wisconsin, how do we measure it, and how can we stop it?

A kangaroo-like marsupial species, the brush-tailed bettong, has bounced back from the brink of extinction thanks to the work of Marna Banggara, an initiative aimed at restoring the ecological ...

Since European colonisation, predators like foxes and feral cats have driven countless animals to the brink — or wiped them out entirely. These relentless invaders outcompete their local counterparts ...

This week, the state and federal governments committed $4.8 million to help its owners, the Woolford family, transform the ...

Once a familiar sight along Britain’s riverbanks, water voles now face extinction—thanks to a ... There are few animals so beloved in literature as the character of Ratty, one of the most ...

The animals actually number ... So while it might be one small hop for kangaroos, it's one potentially giant leap for other marsupials on the brink of extinction.