Eastern barred bandicoots were once considered extinct on mainland Australia, but conservationists are determined to give ...

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 ...

Lazarus taxa, where a species is declared extinct but later learned to be alive and kicking, is the reason people think the ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

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 ...

The animals — a pygmy long-fingered possum and a newly identified ring-tailed glider — are examples of rare “Lazarus species” that reappear after vanishing from the scientific record. Each species has ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

A recent study by Dr. John Moretti of the University of Texas and local caver John Young uncovered the remains of Ice Age ...

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big. Most of us are familiar sloths, the ...

Giant kangaroos stuck close to home and went extinct when climate change caused that home to disappear, according to a study published in PLOS One by Christopher Laurikainen Gaete of the University of ...