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 ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

Extinction can be a hard reality to confront. It’s one thing to learn about animals like the woolly mammoth or the dodo, which vanished long before we were around, but it’s another when you realize ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia’s extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the world, from platypus to koalas and wombats. Tragically, Australia is the ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

On the second floor of a sleek but unremarkable office building just west of downtown Dallas, Texas, an animatronic white wolf stands atop a promontory, slowly surveying the vast entry area for ...

When you think of rats, you think of relatively small rodents. These dimensions did not apply to the white-footed rabbit rat ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there's a hidden ...

This is a real fox news alert. A rare Cozumel fox has been photographed in Cancun, proving that the species is not extinct as ...

Emus of different sizes once abounded in Australia, Tasmania, and the surrounding islands. When Europeans encountered them, ...