Many people around the world are obsessed with finding animals that are presumed extinct. Although this may sound impossible, animal rediscoveries happen more often than you might think. Some ...

Over the past few hundred years there have been many famous animal extinctions. Most recent animal extinctions are all down ...

The first is what we generally call a woylie: Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi, a living species found in Western Australia. The ...

The planet is seeing a decline in biodiversity, but extinctions are relatively rare and don’t meet the threshold for a sixth ...

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have determined the genetic lineage of a now extinct plant population from ...

Scientists knew almost nothing about how ebony trees, used for guitars and piano keys, grow. A new study reveals the secret ingredient — elephants.

"This marks an important milestone in ongoing conservation efforts within Matusadona National Park," spokesperson Tinashe ...

Experts at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute care for endangered species on 32,000 sprawling acres in Northern ...

Hundreds of species have gone extinct in recent centuries, but losses are few among larger classification levels, meaning we are not witnessing a mass extinction just yet, according to a study ...

Animals are going extinct at an alarmingly fast rate, largely due to human activity. Same for plants. This is bad for all ...