In conservation, the term "flagship species" is used to refer to animals that represent something bigger, like an entire ecosystem. For example, the polar bear represents the Arctic, sea turtles serve ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate ...

The fate of the woolly mammoth is a story shaped by survival, isolation, and one final mystery still unsolved. Once scattered ...

The possibility of the return of the dire wolf has set the internet aflutter with more talk about the idea of a real ...

A scientific breakthrough for global conservation efforts revived a species extinct for 12,500 years and also allowed for the successful birth of four critically endangered red wolves.

Dozens of Australian mammal species have declined and gone extinct since European colonisation – and introduced predators are often blamed. But evidence is lacking.

Recent estimates show that of the 166,000 species on the Red List, 41% of amphibians, 37% of sharks, 26% of mammals, 26% of freshwater fishes, and 12% of birds are threatened with extinction.

As well as the Mall we've found a few photos of the wider Cribbs retail area, with some familiar shops and venues - and some others that you might have forgotten, after their closure years ago.

More than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of extinction ... 1,600 species — including bees ...

and it gives us real hope for the many other species we are working to bring back from extinction." St. Louis Zoo, a United States hub for the reintroduction program, announced the discovery of ...

They are extinct. They are two of the over 50 types ... The effects of toxic chemicals on species and habitats sometimes take a long time to show up, or occur far away from the place where the ...