Bandicoots, a group of tiny nocturnal creatures once considered extinct, are back from the brink and making strides toward ...

Prepare yourselves, folks – there’s an adorably scrungly new baby bird in town at San Antonio Zoo. The young Micronesian ...

True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time ...

A plant missing for nearly 60 years has been found again in one of Australia’s most remote landscapes, and the rediscovery ...

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. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Lazarus taxa, where a species is declared extinct but later learned to be alive and kicking, is the reason people think the megalodon still roams the oceans.

A new modeling study suggests that greater connectivity between groups may have given Homo sapiens the edge over Neanderthals ...

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 ...

Those who venture into Foul Air Cave, below Buchan township in eastern Victoria, quickly realise how it got its ominous name.

A recent study by Dr. John Moretti of the University of Texas and local caver John Young uncovered the remains of Ice Age ...

Explore new research suggesting Neanderthal extinction was due to poor social connectivity, not climate change or competition ...