This article originally appeared on The Revelator. On Sept. 29, 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its intention to remove 23 long-unseen species from the protection of the Endangered ...

Twenty-one species found across 16 states and in the U.S. territory of Guam are officially extinct, federal wildlife officials declared on Oct. 16. The species — several birds, mussels, two species of ...

In search of a tiny fish known as the Maryland darter, scientists have donned snorkels and scuba tanks. They’ve dragged nets, even electrified ones, through ice-cold waters of the Susquehanna River ...

In Sept. 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services released a report declaring 23 animal species as extinct, meaning they haven’t been sighted in decades. Climate change and other anthropogenic causes ...

The bones of an extinct reptile tell a story of how this ancient creature took an 8-foot leap of faith in the air to take flight, new research has revealed. The pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus, the largest ...

As scientists planned an expedition in Mexico this fall to count one of the world’s most endangered animals, a shy porpoise called a vaquita, they dreaded the possibility that there would be none left ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana State University museum official has received a unique retirement gift — researchers in Alabama and South Carolina named a prehistoric shark species after her.

Approximately 100 years ago, Australia’s Paradise Parrot was seemingly resurrected. In the early 1900s, it was considered extinct. But, starting in 1921, several pairs were spotted in Gayndah and Gin ...