Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species that evolution also involved a return trip. Dozens ...

Tigers once roamed from Turkey to China and as far north as Russia and south to Indonesia. Today, they inhabit around 6% of their ancient grounds and are on the brink of extinction. These beautiful ...

A Barry Hartup, director of conservation medicine at the International Crane Foundation and a clinical instructor in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: A lot ...