Even after our successful interbreeding with Neanderthals, our population of Europe wasn't without hitches. Those first ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

A new study estimates that more than 9000 insects and other native invertebrates have become extinct in Australia since European arrival in 1788 and between 1-3 additional species become extinct every ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pushing for added protections for the monarch butterfly after suggesting multiple ...

As the years go by, more and more species of animals reach the brink of extinction or disappear completely. The health of the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes listing the monarch butterfly as threatened due to a significant population decline.

The Endangered Species Act affords extensive protections to species the wildlife service lists as endangered or threatened.

The Shortnose Cisco was thought wiped out by invasive species and overfishing decades ago from where it was known to live, in ...

Scientists say more than 9,000 non-marine invertebrate species have gone extinct in Australia since Europeans arrived in 1788 ...

The genome of a once-endangered songbird shows extensive signs of inbreeding, according to a new study by Penn State ...

A new study projects biodiversity threats if global warming speeds up. Under the most extreme scenarios, about one in three ...

Conservationists say five Hawaiian crows have been released on Maui for the first time as part of an ongoing effort to return ...