Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist.

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...

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

A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

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

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number of humans living on Earth is increasing fast, other great apes are in ...