A world where extinct animals are brought back for the betterment of both the planet and mankind may seem like science ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have been freezing living cells from endangered species. Here’s how the Frozen Zoo® is ...

Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off ...

A new study finds thousands of imperiled plants and animals meet Endangered Species Act criteria yet remain unlisted.

A Sierra Nevada red fox captured and collared for the first time in the southern Sierra may prove to be the key to saving the ...

Scientists believe there are only a few hundred black-footed ferrets still living in the Western United States. The ...

The Endangered Species Act, however, goes way beyond. The act also protects animals of growing rarity the average person never heard of, birds people know little about, and plants with names they ...

An extinct snail found in a Bermuda alleyway led to biologists breeding 100,000 and releasing them back into the wild—and they're thriving.

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

Colossal Biosciences aims to freeze millions of animal samples in the hope of saving endangered species, or one day resurrecting them.

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 ...

This list covers 14 of those animals, some you’d expect and others that might surprise you. From familiar symbols of American wildlife to lesser-known species clinging to survival, these animals are ...