Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from an unusual place: the stomach ...

In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their ...

Erecting the fence around the Western River Refuge, however, has seen the number of dunnarts increase between 90 and 100%, ...

Studying how ancient animals lived and why they died out can offer important insight to protecting species today.

Migratory land animals encounter manmade barriers such as roads. A study reports negative impacts of an industrial road on ...

Invasive species often disrupt ecosystems, but in some cases the damage goes much further. Certain introduced animals have directly driven native species to extinction, leaving permanent gaps in ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

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

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

What makes this discovery so remarkable, is that this species was considered extinct in South Australia. The closest known ...