On a lawn inside the Bronx Zoo, rows of headstones display multiple animal species, making for an eerie display during the ...

India's rich wildlife heritage has seen the disappearance of several species, including the Indian cheetah, Javan rhinoceros, ...

It may be hard to imagine a time when giant mastodons and other long-extinct animals were roaming the prairies of South ...

The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in ...

Researchers analyzing ancient fossils from caves across Western Australia have uncovered a completely new species of bettong ...

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their ...

Huge tunnels under southern Brazil and northern Argentina were potentially made by giant, Ice Age sloths for refuge and rest ...

The slaty-masked tinamou, found in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry.

This video explores five species once declared extinct that were later found alive in surprising locations. It follows the circumstances that allowed these animals to persist unnoticed for years or ...

This bird is totally crazy-looking, and it is an opera singer,” says a biologist from Colombia and an expert on Neotropical ...

A long-lost Bolivian killifish has been found alive, revealing a globally important hotspot for seasonal killifish diversity at risk from deforestation. Researchers have confirmed the rediscovery of ...

A parasitic plant, Campbellia aurantiaca, long thought extinct, with vibrant orange & yellow blooms has been rediscovered in ...