Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...

Red grouse is endemic across Britain and Ireland, being a different species from willow ptarmigan. The males exhibit striking red colouration with prominent combs attached to their faces.

The critically endangered whitefin swellshark, a little-known deep-sea species, faces a grim future as climate change ...

Fishing and Conserving in Great Barrier Reef's Marine Reserves ... The Cost of Preventing Extinction of Australia's Priority Species Feb. 3, 2025 — A new study has estimated it would cost ...

The specter of extinction looms larger than ever for numerous species across the globe ... efforts are essential to secure a future for these critically endangered great apes. The northern white ...

Researchers have rediscovered a rare fish species presumed to be extinct after it was not seen for more than eight decades.

Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to ...

After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, this ecological “unicorn” was spotted alive and well in the ...

Jonathan Armbruster, professor and curator of fishes in Auburn University's College of Sciences and Mathematics (COSAM), has ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.

A firm that says it can bring back the woolly mammoth 4,000 years after it vanished from the earth has just completed a $200 million (£160 million) funding round. Colossal Biosciences founder Ben ...

Scientists in Egypt discovered a not-before-known apex predator that lived 30 million years ago, potentially helping to solve an extinction mystery.