South Africa is the world’s leading exporter of big cats and their body parts, with over 3,500 living animals and 34,000 body ...

“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

The world’s rarest parrot, the Spix’s macaw – once declared extinct in the wild – has hatched at Pairi Daiza zoo in Belgium.

"Many endangered species struggle to recover even with intensive conservation measures," first author Daichi Tsujimoto said. ...

Once common across Europe, North Africa and West Asia, the slender-billed curlew has not been officially sighted since 1995, ...

Wolves and dogs don’t normally breed in the wild, largely because wolves are so territorial. But an exception has been found.

Did you know Native Americans once shared the land with some truly wild creatures that are now extinct? 🦣 From woolly mammoths to saber-toothed cats, these animals roamed North America thousands of ...

Survival of snow leopard populations could be "precarious" in the future due to the way the elusive mountain cats have evolved, scientists recently discovered. Snow leopards have low genetic diversity ...

The elusive night parrot, once thought extinct, is still found in pockets of Australia. A new study discovers what they need ...

Almost three quarters of all vertebrates that have been driven extinct by humans lived on islands. The majority of these ...

As the book came together, Flach was fascinated to learn what science knows—and doesn’t know—about felines of all forms and ...