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 ...

Swedish scientists retrieved RNA from an extinct Tasmanian tiger to help trace the genes that were active in the animal’s ...

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

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

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

Two key coral reefs in Florida are “functionally extinct” following the 2023 heatwave, warns a new scientific study.

To save it, they undertook one of the largest captive snail breeding and reintroduction efforts in Australian, and perhaps ...

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 ...

Colossal Biosciences said it is working with famous "Lord of the Rings" director Sir Peter Jackson to bring the moa back to ...

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