The Bangka slow loris is still close to extinction, but new research suggests it continues to survive on a tropical Indonesian island. Conservationists are calling for stronger habitat protections and ...
A rescue center on Bangka Island, Indonesia, took in more than 90 Bangka slow lorises in 2015-2025, a primate unrecorded by science since the 1930s.
This small primate has practically mastered the art of going unnoticed. With its nocturnal lifestyle and a silent, deliberate ...
Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from the University of Reading have found. Their study, published in Nature ...
Researchers at Bournemouth University used ancient DNA to solve a 150-year-old mystery, finding that an extinct giant crane ...
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Bones of an 'extinct giant crane' named 150 years ago turn out to belong to a different species
(Piotr Krzeslak/iStockphoto/Getty Images) In 1870, identifying species was a matter of looking closely at their appearance.
Rare footage of a legendary animal, extinct since 1943, shows the last known survivor of its species
Toolache Wallaby from 1936 is a film owned by Field Naturalists that has managed to capture an extinct Australian animal running through a meadow. The discovery was made possible thanks to the ...
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Nevada’s ‘lost’ species raise extinction fears as new journal tracks missing plants and animals
A rare wildflower once found in the scrublands of Las Vegas has not been reliably recorded in the area for nearly a century, highlighting growing concerns about species that may be disappearing before ...
The specimen was long mislabeled, according to a new study. Paleontologists identified it as a previously undescribed genus and species of gavial—a cousin of crocodiles and alligators—which they named ...
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 ...
Sometimes an animal disappears so completely that scientists eventually stop expecting to see it again. Decades pass, expeditions come up empty, and the species quietly moves into the extinction ...
Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from the University of Reading have found. Their study, published today (Tuesday ...
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