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

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

The Christmas Island shrew is thought to be at least the third mammal species to go extinct on the island as a direct result ...

Image via Getty Images An animal long deemed to possibly be extinct has reappeared after nearly three decades. Scientists in ...

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or ...

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

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

Woolly mammoths haven't been seen for 4,000 years, but if scientists are successful, they could be walking around Alaska in just five years. Colossal Biosciences researchers in Texas who study ancient ...

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

Rarely do species presumed extinct reappear with renewed hope for a better future. But researchers in Australia not only ...

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 ...