After four grueling days of searching, the team had found only years-old scat in the same area as ... named the female tortoise after her home island. Finding a supposedly extinct species may seem ...

In an astonishing discovery, scientists have uncovered a clam species ... found alive. This find places Cymatioa cooki in the category of "Lazarus taxa," animals that were thought to be extinct ...

For decades, the coelacanthexisted only in fossil records—until one turned up in a South African fishing net. It was 1938 ...

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world ... With no living relatives alive today, megalodon sharks were unique in that they were ...

This small, possibly extinct marsupial from ... its favourite foods would be found. To better understand its diet and feeding behaviour, we turned to the animal's skull. The ngudlukanta had ...

The desert rat-kangaroo — a small marsupial species — was declared extinct in 1994. But, scientists believe it could be alive and “evading ... s skull were only found to be effective enough ...