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

Every creature that has disappeared leaves behind more than just a memory they leave lessons about ecosystems, extinction ...

For almost 200 years, no one knew where the last living great auks were. Using DNA testing, one of them was found in Cincinnati.

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

At one time, poaching was the biggest threat to elephants in Africa. As these majestic creatures were slaughtered by the ...

Bison are one of the few species in which both males and females have horns. A reminder: Horns are different from antlers.

A trail camera in Westmoreland County captured a fisher over the summer. The camera operator, PixCams, recently confirmed the ...

On islands, many plants rely on animals such as birds, bats and reptiles to disperse their seeds and help them grow in new places. When native animals go extinct, this naturally reduces seed dispersal ...

Artificial breeding and reintroduction programs were implemented across the country after the species went extinct in Japan in 1971. The species is classified as critically endangered on Japan's ...

Newly opened fruits of hōʻawa (Pittosporum flocculosum) are exposing their seeds to birds (left), but older fruits and seeds have withered on the plant without being consumed (right) because the ...