The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct by the International Union for ...

At least 35,765 species are threatened with extinction. An update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species has declared 31 animal and plant species ...

A city worker discovered the uniquely shaped antlers during an excavation project in Toronto in 1976, experts said.

Northern white rhinoceroses were feared extinct in the wild in 2008. In 2018, the last male northern white rhinoceros died at a conservancy project in Kenya. The only two that remain are a mother and ...

Now the tiny creature has been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which manages the authoritative Red List of threatened species. The shrew had not been ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

WASHINGTON – As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly 9 feet long with several dozen legs – wasn’t terrifying enough, scientists could only just imagine what the extinct beast’s head ...

Visitors can hear Björk's immersive, otherworldly soundscape, Nature Manifesto, over the next few weeks as they climb the long, glass escalator that hugs the side of Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.

Volcanoes that have laid dormant for millions of years could revolutionize the sourcing of important rare earth elements, a new study published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters suggests.