Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are nowhere to be found. From human activity to climate change, new animals ...

Scientists estimate that roughly one quarter of all plant and animal species on Earth are now at risk of extinction. Habitat ...

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...

A new study reveals that for conservation efforts to be effective, all threats to wildlife must be considered together, not ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

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 ...

Scientists have described an exciting discovery: two marsupials that modern science thought to be extinct are still alive in ...

How scientists (and the rest of us) are finding 16,000 new species a month.