One bright spot is green sea turtles, which have recovered substantially, the IUCN said as it released its latest Red List of ...

More than a quarter of all animals, plants and fungi assessed are at risk of extinction, according to the latest IUCN Red ...

The list of animals pushed into extinction has grown even longer. In its latest update, the International Union for ...

The IUCN Red List update includes reassessments of 1,360 bird species by BirdLife International. It also includes 172,620 ...

Sea turtles are making a surprising comeback, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The news was ...

Once common across Europe, North Africa and West Asia, the slender-billed curlew has not been officially sighted since 1995, ...

The majority of global bird species are in decline as agriculture and deforestation continues to threaten diversity, ...

Analysis of 216 extinct species by biologists found birds endemic to islands, occupied ecologically specific niche, lacking flight, with large bodies and sharply angled wings were the ones likely to ...

The IUCN report also indicated that overall 61% of bird species have declining populations — an estimate that has increased ...

A bird species found in mainland Europe and the Mediterranean is thought to be extinct globally by a coalition of conservation groups. The slender-billed curlew – a migratory shorebird that bred in ...

Cincinnati took custody of a great auk in 1974. A new DNA test proves it's one of the last survivors of the seabird species.

The image on the right is the last known photograph of the tooth-billed pigeon, taken by Moeumu Uili in December 2013. The Colossal Foundation has developed an AI algorithm that can detect the ...