By Shreya Dasgupta Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

Quick Take Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, died, underscoring extinction and the emotional toll on caretakers.

A tiny fish long feared lost has resurfaced in Bolivia, offering a rare conservation success story amid widespread habitat ...

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 ...

An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to remove 22 animals and a plant from the endangered species list because of extinction. They join the list of 650 U.S. species that have ...

To save it, they undertook one of the largest captive snail breeding and reintroduction efforts in Australian, and perhaps ...

The moa were a group of giant flightless birds that lived in New Zealand. They disappeared from Earth about 600 years ago, ...

Colossal Biosciences said it is working with famous "Lord of the Rings" director Sir Peter Jackson to bring the moa back to ...