The slender-billed curlew, a migratory bird last glimpsed in Morocco in 1995, is now confirmed extinct. “The extinction of ...

The "first of its kind in the UK" report identified the country's rarest species, including the high brown fritillary butterfly and Snowden leaf beetle, based on how geographically restricted they are ...

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 ...

South Africa’s most threatened bird, the Botha’s Lark, is teetering on the brink of becoming the country’s first recorded ...

A bird once declared extinct in the wild has just laid eggs in Hawaii. The sihek, also known as the Guam kingfisher, has a striking burnt orange breast, electric blue wings, and a sharp beak. Native ...

A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has issued an urgent warning. New findings point to rapid extinction events set to occur in the next 100 years across 500 bird species. The slew ...

How did extinct animals move? Paleontologists are interested in figuring this out since it can tell us more about their ways of life, such as whether they were agile enough to hunt prey. It can also ...

We've seen a US company bring the wolf species back from extinction after more than 10,000 years, and now the next animal on ...

The proposed changes include the elimination of the "blanket rule" that automatically protects animals and plants when they ...