Many ‘megafauna’ species are threatened by ‘human consumption of meat or body parts’, according to researchers. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going on in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Hawaiian Po'ouli or black-faced honeycreeper. You won't see this bird anymore, because it is extinct. (Hawaii Department of ...

The story of the damage done to the world’s biodiversity is a tale of decline spanning thousands of years. Can the world seize its chance to change the narrative? The story of the biodiversity crisis ...

The artwork was commissioned to celebrate 50 years of West Midland Safari Park, which has been home to all of the animals featured in the image of the large cat, created from an original photograph ...

Last year, the Java stingaree became the first fish to be declared extinct as a result of human actions. Could there soon be others? In the bright coastal waters of Australia, Julia Constance has ...

The Maui nukupuʻu, a short-tailed Hawaiian bird with a long bill, has not been seen by scientists since 1996. It was declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2021, along with 22 other ...

That's according to a team of scientists who have warned that hundreds of thousands of mammals could be lost if human activity doesn't change. The new research - which has been published in the ...

In the world of biology, being declared extinct is usually a permanent sentence, but nature occasionally loves to prove us wrong. These incredible animals, often referred to as “Lazarus species,” ...