The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

By Shreya Dasgupta Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent ...

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Birds are vanishing at an alarming rate. Since the Late Pleistocene, thousands of species have disappeared forever. Estimates ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

Recent animals extinctions are a warning that we need to change the way we live as if we don't me may loose some of the planets most iconic animals. We are currently in a mass extinction event as ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only ...

It's been over 10,000 years since a dire wolf has roamed the Earth. But now, according to scientists for a genetics company called Colossal Biosciences, dire wolves are back — or, as some are calling ...