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

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

A tiny fish long feared lost has resurfaced in Bolivia, offering a rare conservation success story amid widespread habitat ...

While we can’t say exactly how many animal species have gone extinct in the past 125 years, it’s estimated that between 200 and 500 species have faced extinction in the past century. In the animal ...

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

Image via Getty Images An animal long deemed to possibly be extinct has reappeared after nearly three decades. Scientists in ...

When you think of extinct animals, you might go to a saber-toothed cat, or the infamous dodo. But there are, unfortunately, a lot more recent animals that have gone the way of that ill-fated bird. And ...

An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, ...

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 ...

Researchers analyzing ancient fossils from caves across Western Australia have uncovered a completely new species of bettong along with two new woylie subspecies—remarkable finds made bittersweet by ...

Scientists successfully extract RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, thylacine, revealing how its genes functioned before its extinction.