"Extinction is now, but so is conservation." ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

For 20 years, photographer Joel Sartore has been documenting animals through his Photo Ark project, which has now reached its ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — 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. Scientists from the Bishop Museum and ...

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 ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

Conservationists in Thailand are celebrating a surprising discovery. On Dec. 25, Panthera, a global wild cat conservation organization, announced that the endangered flat-headed cat has returned to ...

The spiniest plant communities in the tropics grow where large browsing mammals once fed. In much of the Americas, many of those animals vanished thousands of years ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Dodo birds could return from extinction in just "five to seven years," according to a company that specializes in reviving extinct animals. The dodo bird went extinct less than 80 ...

Scientists have confirmed that two marsupial species — the pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider — are alive in New Guinea after being known only from fossil evidence for more than ...