Two marsupial species presumed to be extinct have “risen from the dead” after being rediscovered on the island of New Guinea, ...

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

Thheiba and Fidda were among the zoo’s last Barbary lionesses and played a key role in conservation. The sisters lived side-by-side their entire lives and helped support a lion subspecies now extinct ...

Scientists have confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still ...

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

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 ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

There has been a flurry of early sightings of the large tortoiseshell butterfly, a charity says.