"What's most important is the next steps that we take in the future." Experts note 'there's still a possibility' an extinct ...

When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature has gone the way of the dinosaur and the dodo, but on occasion, scientists ...

Scientists say a tortoise discovered in 2019 on the Galapagos Islands belongs to a species considered extinct more than 100 years ago. The single female tortoise belongs to the species Chelonoidis ...

Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are ...

Using next-generation instruments and groundbreaking DNA-reading techniques, scientists have uncovered much of the genetic code of the woolly mammoth, a prehistoric species of ele ...

Current laws that deem species safe from extinction ignore their ecological role, geographic range and genetic diversity, as well as their relationships with people.

If an animal hasn't been seen in the wild for more than fifty years, it's technically extinct. But academic criteria haven't stopped some disappeared species from reappearing, confounding official ...

One of the tiny animals was dead, while the other was seen cradled in the arms of an officer, softly hooting before covering its face with its arm.

Against all odds, one of Australia’s smallest marsupials has returned to southwest NSW, more than 150 years after it was ...

New Zealand is turning to artificial intelligence to find new ways to protect incredibly rare species of birds that were once thought to be extinct. The country's bird population was decimated when ...

WASHINGTON — Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa. His fascination with the flightless ostrich-like bird has led ...