Quick Take Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, died, underscoring extinction and the emotional toll on caretakers.

Every new extinction ripples out beyond the affected species, from ecosystems to human knowledge across culture, spirituality ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 35 species of falcons roam the Earth’s skies at ...

Analysis of 216 extinct species by biologists found birds endemic to islands, occupied ecologically specific niche, lacking flight, with large bodies and sharply angled wings were the ones likely to ...

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 ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...

A version of the dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) could make a return someday soon. Colossal Biosciences announced this week several milestones in its quest to bring the extinct species back to life. On ...

Looking to inform the conservation of critically endangered bird species, University of Utah biologists completed an analysis identifying traits that correlate with all 216 bird extinctions since 1500 ...