Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. the tarsier is a very peculiar small animal.in fact it is one of the smallest known primates, no larger than an adult men's hand.© ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding a species long thought to be extinct is a dream of many naturalists and ecologists. One family in Sri Lanka got to have ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

Extinction can be a hard reality to confront. It’s one thing to learn about animals like the woolly mammoth or the dodo, which vanished long before we were around, but it’s another when you realize ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

One day in August, 1875, a grayish-blue parrot was shot on a small island in the Indian Ocean near Mauritius. It was the last time a Rodrigues parakeet was known to be seen alive. That bird was one of ...

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the charge, has made ...

With climate change melting ice and altering Earth's oceans, these Antarctic species are losing their ways of life, and very ...