Of those, 700 are threatened with extinction. Jane Smart, head of IUCN’s Centre for Science and Data, said it will take political will to save the jeopardized species, and the gravity of the new ...

Globally, BirdLife International estimates that 12 percent of known 9,865 bird species are now considered threatened, with 192 species, or 2 percent, facing an “extremely high risk” of extinction in .

There are thousands of species facing extinction -- mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, plants and invertebrates that are at risk of disappearing from our planet altogether. There are ...

Well, neither has anyone else alive today: the flightless bird has been extinct for about 700 years ... is the first step in bringing those species back to life. Or at least, scientists' closest ...

Before 1990, a species could be declared extinct if 50 years had passed without a sighting. Nowadays, other factors are taken into account when deciding how likely it is that a species is extinct ...

Our research looked at data from the government’s annual baking competition. Upon close analysis, we find a dangerous lack of ...

There have been five great die-offs in the history of our planet, when at least 75 percent of the known species disappear. The last mass extinction was 66 million years ago, when an asteroid wiped ...

numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said Friday. The International Union for Conservation of ...