Some species are very resilient, even coming back from the brink of extinction, like these ten examples, which prove you ...

In the case of mammals, the best-studied group of animals, the fossil record indicates that the “background” rate of extinction, the one that prevailed before humans entered the picture ...

A growing body of evidence suggests the planet is in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. Animal species around the world are being hit on multiple fronts as habitat loss, hotter oceans ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

A bird species known for their unusual migration patterns have now been declared extinct after research found these animals have not been seen since 1995. The slender-billed curlew are a bird ...