Decision to rescind ‘roadless rule’ opens more than 45m acres of national forests to roads, drilling and logging ...

The vast American wilderness holds many secrets, and sometimes those secrets include animals that science says shouldn't be there anymore. From dense forests to remote mountain ranges, reports persist ...

A new report from the Center for Biological Diversity, the rollback of the rule could put 7.4 million acres of designated ...

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 ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

Over 40,000 species are currently fighting for survival, and the threats pushing them toward the point of no return are ...

A zoo recently welcomed a coppery titi monkey as well as critically endangered cotton-top tamarin twins. The post Three ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...

Would you like to see a real, live wooly mammoth? Or how about a Tasmanian tiger in the flesh? Scientists have already finagled a few ways to resurrect extinct species from their evolutionary graves.

Last week, The Guardian dropped the news that this common, bright blue and black garden-dweller could be extinct within the next 30–40 years thanks to climate damage. It is quite frankly terrifying ...

The endangered eastern quoll, one of Australia’s species of quoll, is a nocturnal carnivorous marsupial that is small in ...