Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

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.

A trail camera in Westmoreland County captured a fisher over the summer. The camera operator, PixCams, recently confirmed the ...

After his company, Colossal Biosciences, successfully revived the dire wolf from extinction, he's ready to continue to change ...

In New Zealand, conservationists are looking at new ways to protect the country's native bird species, some of which were ...

The history of the Earth spans about 4.5 billion years, during which countless creatures have appeared and gone extinct thanks to evolution. The only evidence we have that they existed is their ...

Researchers have described a whole new family of extinct crocodyliforms based on the fossilized remains of a single teenage croc named Elton discovered in the Blackleaf Formation.

For almost 200 years, no one knew where the last living great auks were. Using DNA testing, one of them was found in ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

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 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is leading efforts to ensure the repopulation of one of North Carolina's most endangered species.

University of Cambridge researchers have developed a new way to measure the impact of our food production on other species' ...