A paleoartistic reconstruction of the new species, based on the fossil and on a close relative species found in amber from Myanmar. Now, a team in Brazil has uncovered a 113-million-year-old hell ant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Swedish scientists retrieved RNA from an extinct Tasmanian tiger to help trace the genes that were active in the animal’s ...

Swedish scientists recover RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, revealing gene activity and ancient viruses in extinct ...

In Next of Kin at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, artist Christina Seely repurposes natural history specimens for an emotional exhibition about animal extinction. Installation view of the ...

Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? CU Boulder environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated ...

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 ...

B R I G H T O N, Tasmania, Aug. 22 -- A sign by the small enclosurenear the Bonorong Park Wildlife Center entrance says “Tasmaniantiger” but the fabled carnivore is nowhere to be seen. The last known ...

Despite being quite dried out, the only known specimen of the animal allowed it to be identified as a new species to science Dryadobates bokermanni, which lives in southern Bahia, is one of seven ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...