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A new species of mountain frog has been discovered in the rainforests of New South Wales (NSW), and Queensland, Australia. The species Philoria knowlesi was discovered by researchers from universities, ...

Part One of the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference is taking place this week in the city of Kunming ...

Koalas, rock wallabies, and a rare tree will be included in the list of 92 endangered and iconic ...

An adorable tortoise has proudly celebrated his 54th birthday by enjoying a special watermelon cake to mark the ...

A rare turtle species, beloved for its permanent "smiling" expression, has been saved from the brink of extinction ...

Commentary According to a new United Nations report, “around 1 million species [out of 1.8 million known species] ...

In China's Guangdong Province, there is a popular saying that people there will eat anything with four legs ...

Giant rocks from space are falling from the sky more than they used to, but don’t worry. For ...

According to a new report, only about 7,000 of these majestic cats are left in the wild.

In Southeast Asia's natural forests, 40 percent of species have less than 10 percent of their habitats protected from ...

Scientists have discovered the fossil remains of a Cretaceous-era crocodile in the Sahara Desert, Tunisia. The fossil is ...

A new study urges scientists to move their focus from species extinction to species rarity in order to ...

The disappearance of elephants and other large land animals could have a devastating and permanent effect on plants ...

Hundreds of thousands of years of volcanic eruptions in India—accelerated by a massive asteroid impact 66 million years ...

According to a recently published study, 60% of the world's largest terrestrial herbivores are facing extinction.

Our planet’s large mammal biodiversity is a shade of what it once was.

A new study casts doubt on the theory that a cosmic impact 12,900 years ago triggered the Younger ...

A definitive geological timeline shows that a series of massive volcanic explosions 66 million years ago spewed enormous ...

Today, many zoos promote the protection of biodiversity as a significant part of their mission. As conservation "arks" ...

She is the most intact woolly mammoth ever found. What could this mean for cloning?

How and why a study about when the giant prehistoric shark Megalodon went extinct got picked up as ...

  What do woolly mammoths, pandas, and John Lennon have in common? Someone out there wants them cloned. ...

The dystopia imagined by a science fiction author was inspired by reports of organ harvesting in China.

Sharks are in danger in most parts of the world, with a quarter of all sharks and rays ...

The Federal Reserve is once again ignoring pervasive signs of financial instability that are widely visible.