Millions of animals are at risk, but what are the rarest animals in the world? These are some of the most endangered animals, ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

While the whale shark is certainly a big animal, it’s considerably smaller than the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, which is the biggest animal in the world. The largest ... rapidly and the species ...

The Sundaic rhino, also called the Javan rhino, is one of the world's rarest mammals ... for the protection of these critically endangered animals.” The paper is published in the journal ...

which we’re featuring in this special issue on endangered wildlife. From National Geographic’s Photo Ark and Joel Sartore, Vanishing: The World’s Most Vulnerable Animals is available where ...

The discovery, published in the scientific journal Genome Research, offers "hope that RNA locked up in the world's ... in 1936 and the animal was classified as officially extinct in 1982.

Animals are disappearing ... of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris amoyensis (critically endangered, possibly extinct in ...

a region of the mountainous Turpan-Hami Basin in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Western China may have been an oasis for some living organisms during the planet’s largest mass extinction.