In the last ten years, at least 15 species have officially checked out, never to be seen again. It's ironic to think how ...

The Partula tohiveana snail has been reclassified as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List after being previously ...

A rare and tiny creature has been reintroduced to the wild after being listed as extinct for several decades on the IUCN Red ...

Some animals that were believed to be extinct have stunned the world by making ... are proof that conservation efforts are making a real difference. Curious to see which animals defied the odds ...

De-extinction starts with DNA samples from the lost species. Sometimes this is the complete genome; other times, they may splice genes from the extinct species into the genome of a living animal. Then ...

Everywhere we look, species are winking out. Just in the past decade, two mammal species have gone extinct: a bat known as the Christmas Island pipistrelle and a rat, the Bramble Cay melomys.

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists ...

A new monitoring program in the Bay State will collect near real-time information about the presence of endangered North ...

It took thousands of years to develop the world's extraordinary range of domesticated farm animals—an estimated 8,800 ...

New Species of Killifish from Kenya Already Critically Endangered Mar. 12, 2025 — A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has ...