Somewhere on Earth, species are vanishing faster than ever. The 2025 IUCN Red List update revealed that nearly 49,000 species ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

Unfortunately, as the world changes, some animals just can’t evolve quickly enough to make it, and they go extinct. This has been happening since the earliest life forms on Earth. Today, humans are a ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

For millions of years, Earth was the planet of reptiles. Giant flying reptiles controlled the skies while massive dinosaurs were kings of the land. Other prehistoric animals, however, may not have had ...

A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. Colossal Biosciences says it used novel ...