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 ...

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

A long-lost prehistoric bird species makes a triumphant comeback in its native land after being considered extinct.

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

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

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

Finding a species long thought to be extinct is a dream of many naturalists and ecologists. One family in Sri Lanka got to have this amazing experience. Journalist and naturalist Sajeewa Wijeweera was ...

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 ...

The moa were a group of giant flightless birds that lived in New Zealand. They disappeared from Earth about 600 years ago, ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...