Human beings are the greatest threat to the survival of endangered species, as we are the ones destroying their natural ...

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as ...

The discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say ...

The Guam kingfisher was extinct in the wild. Through coordinated breeding, cultural consultation, and careful reintroduction ...

Hawaiʻi’s role in a recent discovery in the forests of New Guinea is rewriting a scientific story that seemed finished thousands of years ago.

Thheiba and Fidda were 22-years-old and were the remaining two females of a pride at the zoo, with one male lion named Qays remaining.

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6000 years.

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

The pygmy possum has a stripe down its back and an unusually long fourth finger, twice as long as the rest of its digits, that it uses to extract insect larvae that bores down into wood. It was last ...

Spotting a Manx Loaghtan on the mist-shrouded cliffs of the Isle of Man feels like observing a story from ancient mythology ...

This lost ecosystem is known today from the famous St Bathans fossil deposits, which preserve one of the world’s richest records of the Miocene and offer a rare window into Aotearoa’s warmer, more ...