The findings suggest that changing wind patterns and increased tropical storm activity in the region may have prompted this ...

The rhino population across the world has increased slightly but so have the killings, mostly in South Africa, as poaching fed by huge demand for rhino horns remains a top threat.

Aside from two waterfleas, the invasive species living in Lake Erie are very similar to those taking over the rest of the ...

"If we eliminate the mosquitoes that transmit them, we eliminate the potential risk of transmission of these diseases." ...

The regal fritillary butterfly's population is declining, due in part to prairie habitat loss in Kansas and elsewhere.

No oncologist would wait for a patient's cancer to spread before treating it. Similarly, waiting to detect the potential loss ...

Several participatory science and citizen science programs throughout the state involve resident volunteers gathering data ...

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) pilot project reports its success in uniting scientists from across Europe to produce high-quality reference genomes for 98 species. This marks a significant ...

Natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions elevate the extinction risk for mammals, ...

Dr Rupert Collins, our Senior Curator of Fishes, says that it’s best to treat a species as “the result of an ongoing process, rather than a definable quality”. “When populations become reproductively ...

The study revelas the ongoing human impact on black rhino recovery. In 1880, Africa had 113,000 black rhinos, but by 2122, ...

A new book by ecologists at Stanford and the National Autonomous University of Mexico advocates for earlier detection and mitigation of threats to ward off population extinction.