A researcher says the long-suspected extinction of the mouse-sized mammal is "another stain" on Australia's environmental record.

‘Arguing that we are not experiencing a sixth mass extinction, or at least playing it down, gives support to those who would happily allow it to happen,’ wrote Cowie in the normally docile pages of ...

Though the dinosaurs were all killed by a meteor, not all were created equal in life. This species in particular was adept at ...

Despite conservation efforts, Puerto Rico is still home to 16 species that are considered threatened, endangered, or at risk ...

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

Conservationists urge stronger protections to deter the growing illegal trade and overseas demand for Okinawa’s endemic species.

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A mosquito larva entombed in amber for about 99 million years is now the oldest known of its kind, according to a new study. The fossil comes from Kachin in northern Myanmar and likely formed when ...

Britain supports a wide variety of species found nowhere else on Earth. But many of these are seldom celebrated and in some cases barely known. James Harding-Morris, who has just written a new book, ...