Across the globe, a small number of animal species are now so rare that only a few individuals remain in the wild. Habitat ...

Extinction has always been final — until now. Advances in genome sequencing, cloning, and genetic engineering have given scientists a real pathway to bring extinct animals back to life. This process, ...

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 ...

Credit: pexels Fossil records show turtles not only survived the K–Pg extinction but actually expanded in diversity afterward. Their aquatic habits gave them shelter when land ecosystems collapsed, ...

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 ...

There are many cute endangered species, and sadly their charm endangers them even more, like these 25 cutest animals that are endangered.

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.