Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

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

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

The Christmas Island shrew is thought to be at least the third mammal species to go extinct on the island as a direct result ...

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

Zebra stripes? Leopard print? Neither were in vogue among the earliest mammals during the Age of Dinosaurs. Early mammals and their close relatives probably sported dark, drab coats from snout to tail ...

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

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

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