Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off ...

"It's every conservationist's dream to help save a whole species – and that's exactly what we've done," said Tamas Papp of ...

Scientists from Oregon State University looked at coastal martens in the town of Klamath for three months ...

An extinct snail found in a Bermuda alleyway led to biologists breeding 100,000 and releasing them back into the wild—and they're thriving.

Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had “resurrected” the dire wolf, a ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

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 ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

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 ...