Each year on March 3, World Wildlife Day draws global attention to the plants and animals that make life on Earth possible.

A small, slender shrub once written off as lost to history has reappeared in the red dirt of remote northern Australia, forcing scientists to rewrite the fate of a species they had already mourned.

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect the Barren Valley collomia under the Endangered Species Act.

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

The government of Bangladesh is undertaking an ambitious recovery plan for five critically endangered plants, according to Mongabay. Bulborox, small-bulb orchid, dwarf date palm, chaulmoogra, and ...

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to study life’s earliest stages. Researchers traced the genetic origins of an ...