In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their ...

While it is always a shame to see more animals go extinct, the report did include some good news. The IUCN noted that the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) has sufficiently recovered to be moved off ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

In the last ten years, at least 15 species have officially checked out, never to be seen again. It's ironic to think how these creatures once roamed the planet with us, but now, they're just part of ...

Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from an unusual place: the stomach ...

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 ...

A psychedelic spider, sign of spring, a loud primate and more make Fauna & Flora’s 2026 Species to Watch List.