In a landmark shift, a new study has found that climate change is now the most pervasive human-caused threat to imperiled ...

The dire wolf is back — at least according to the company that made headlines earlier this month for the world’s first ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

Have dire wolves been brought back from extinction? Not quite - Wolf conservationists say the truly dire matter is protecting ...

As human beings have grown wealthier, they have come to care about environmental stewardship and gained the resources to act on their newfound compassion for wildlife.

The human-caused changes to our planet that are driving the crisis include pollution, habitat destruction like deforestation, industrial-scale agriculture land use, and, of course, wrapped up in all ...

Nothing, however, could even remotely compete against the fear of total human extinction, which is always equated with the end of time. Against this fear, a number of postulates have developed ...

Researchers examined teeth and skulls of 99 extinct crocodylomorph species and 20 living crocodylian species to reconstruct their dietary ecology and identify characteristics that helped some groups ...

The secret to their longevity could help conservationists better protect species today threatened by extinction.

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...

With wildlife populations globally 73% smaller on average than in 1970 and large mammals missing from much of the world, ...

Such breeding efforts are key in ensuring that species threatened with extinction do not disappear off the face of the earth.