For years, scientists feared the vaquita porpoise would quietly vanish from the planet — another species lost before most ...

Shedd Aquarium/Gavin Wright As well as being beautiful, coral reefs are important for the incredible biodiversity that they ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Floridians were enraged last summer when a viral video showed men offshore Panama City capturing a giant manta ray, a ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or degradation, climate change, forest fires, deforestation, and slash-and-burn and ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

The ocean is full of strange anomalies, many of which are still unexplained. But when those oddities literally breach the ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...