Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from the University of Reading have found.

Every week, one or two species of Australian invertebrate go extinct. Many species on the brink live in cities – where we can help.

For nearly two centuries, the king cobra was considered a single species, Ophiophagus hannah. However, recent genetic and morphological research has revealed that it is actually four distinct ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing added protections for seven species of pangolin under the Endangered Species Act ...

Seven species of pangolin could soon be federally protected thanks to a proposal from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

U.S. to add pangolins, ‘most heavily trafficked mammal,’ to endangered list The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed adding seven species of pangolin, which are sold for their scales and ...

Who’s the real invasive species: us or them? Ecologists are rethinking urban biodiversity Our cities and suburbs have spiders, rats, raccoons, lizards — and people. Which of us is really the ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that belongs to the same group of the infamous Tyrannosaurus rex.

Scientists announced the discovery of a new species of early tyrannosaur in a museum vault in Mongolia, an ancestor to notorious apex predators like T. rex.

A legal scholar with a Ph.D. in wildlife genetics explains the promise biotechnology techniques hold for some animals that are currently endangered.

Scientists find intriguing new species worldwide, like Amazon frogs, isopods under Roman mines, Vietnam lizards, and Sumatra betta fish.

The survival of more than 3,500 animal species is in jeopardy thanks to the impacts of climate change, a new study has found. This threat applies to at least a quarter of the species in six ...