In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their ...

Imagine your home slowly vanishing beneath your feet; that’s exactly what’s happening to animals all over the world right now. A gentle giant of a problem is brewing across our planet, and it’s not ...

An Instagram post about the last two northern white rhinos references a scenario conservationists have warned us about for ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

The number of Giraffes dwindled to 97,562 in 2015 down from 151,000 and 163,000 in 1985. According to the organisation, the population of the world's tallest animal has reduced to close to 40 percent ...

On Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady River, fishers tap the side of their boats and wait. If they’re lucky, a gray dolphin with a rounded head and smirk appears. These are Irrawaddy dolphins—social, intelligent ...

A psychedelic spider, sign of spring, a loud primate and more make Fauna & Flora’s 2026 Species to Watch List.

A new University of Michigan study has found that higher levels of biodiversity—the enormous variety of life on Earth and the species, traits and evolutionary history they represent—appear to reduce ...

A trio of researchers with the Alexander Center for Applied Population Biology, Lincoln Park Zoo, has discovered some of the traits that many species of plants and animals facing extinction have in ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.