The animal is considered the world's rarest primate.

Researchers at Rice University have uncovered a critical link between rising temperatures and declines in a species' population, shedding new light on how global warming threatens natural ecosystems.

Grace Manthey is the senior visual data journalist and data team coordinator for CBS News and Stations. She is an Emmy-winning journalist and visual storyteller with a passion for telling stories that ...

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - U.S. bird populations are experiencing alarming declines due to factors such as habitat loss and climate change, according to a new report identifying 112 species that ...

A new study uncovers a hidden online trade in amphibians that exposes regulatory gaps and threatens wild populations.

"Population viability analyses are a set of methods that allow us to project the demography of a species into the future, mainly to quantify the probability of extinction of a given species or ...

Gene editing may hold the key to rescuing endangered species—not just by preserving them, but by restoring their lost genetic diversity using DNA from museum specimens and related species. Scientists ...

Whether it swims, crawls, runs or flies, it's not easy to estimate the population of a wildlife species. That challenge is even greater when the animal lives in some of the most remote regions of the ...

In December of 2025, a Natural History Museum discovery write-up reported that researchers finally untangled a long-running identification problem involving neotropical hairstreak butterflies. A ...

While growing up in California in the 1980s, Winifred Frick never saw a condor in the wild. The population of North America’s largest bird, Gymnogyps californianus, had dwindled to nearly zero by 1987 ...