Climate change jeopardizes endangered species’ habitats. Potentially jeopardizing them further is a federal proposal around ...

The vagrant kelp gull mated with a local herring gull, though the chick did not survive. Experts say it's a "complete mystery" how the bird came to nest so far north in the first place ...

A new study projects biodiversity threats if global warming speeds up. Under the most extreme scenarios, about one in three species could be facing extinction by the end of the century.

De-extinction, the science of resurrecting extinct species, is progressing in leaps and bounds. Here are six creatures that researchers could bring back to life — and one they've already revived.

A bird species found in mainland Europe and the Mediterranean is thought to be extinct globally by a coalition of conservation groups.. The slender-billed curlew – a migratory shorebird that ...

In South America, which is home to the Amazon Rainforest, 3,356 out of the 13,668 assessed tree species are at risk of extinction due to deforestation for crop farming and livestock ranching.

Piping plovers are also probably the best known of the approximately one dozen federally endangered or threatened animal and plant species in Connecticut.. Folsom-O’Keefe said there are just ...

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, there are over 1,300 species listed as endangered or threatened to become extinct in the U.S. under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

The dire wolf went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The recent claim that a U.S. biotechnology company resurrected the long-extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering seemed to shock the ...

Scientists revealed that the Leach's Storm-petrel, Common Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Arctic Tern and Great Skua are among Britain's most at risk birds.