Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of ...

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

Scientists estimate that roughly one quarter of all plant and animal species on Earth are now at risk of extinction. Habitat ...

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

Steven Spielberg’s new Netflix documentary series has quickly climbed the streaming charts shortly after its release. The show has drawn attention from viewers exploring its large-scale depiction of ...

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

Jason M Ramos/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 Prehistoric Earth was a terrifying place, with giant, fearsome creatures roaming an equally deadly world of erupting volcanoes and primordial swamps. Survival ...

Hawaiʻi's role in a recent discovery in the forests of New Guinea is rewriting a scientific story that seemed finished thousands of years ago.

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as the ethical questions are thorny.

The pygmy possum has a stripe down its back and an unusually long fourth finger, twice as long as the rest of its digits, that it uses to extract insect larvae that bores down into wood. It was last ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...