From Paradise Parrot to Japanese Sea Lion, here are some animal species that went extinct, primarily due to human-driven ...

Last week, science delivered a really cute experimental result. Researchers created a “colossal woolly mouse,” a fluffy ...

Last week, science delivered a really cute experimental result. Researchers created a “colossal woolly mouse,” a fluffy rodent that’s purported to be a step on the way to resurrecting woolly mammoths ...

Recent experiments to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth have raised questions about whether investors are being ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with ...

For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living ...

Many of Earth’s greatest creatures became extinct once humans came along and began using them ... The Chinese paddlefish was last seen around the Three Gorges Dam in 2003, showing just how detrimental ...

It was last seen nearly a century ago, in 1930. And it was officially designated extinct in 1994, likely due ... “When we included the animal’s smaller size into the analysis, the robust features of ...

An ancient animal bone discovered in a quarry about 20 years ago has been donated to a museum. The bone from a palaeoloxodon ...

The bone from a palaeoloxodon - an extinct animal also known as a straight-tusked ... and were present in what is now Cambridgeshire in the last two ice ages. Amalia Robertson, a resident ...