Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, ...

The curious minds at What If consider how ecosystems and evolution might change if the largest flying animal never went extinct.

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

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

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a collaboration of scientists, indigenous communities and citizen scientists ...

Conservationists saved the fuzzy creatures in Victoria, Australia. Now, the animals are showing remarkable signs of genetic recovery ...

Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, which were thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years, have been ...

Researchers came across a tiny long-fingered possum and a ring-tailed glider living in the rainforest in the Indonesian province of West Papua. Find out more here.

Mass extinction is not just a theory; Earth has already gone through five of them, including the event about 65 million years ...

A new study reveals that for conservation efforts to be effective, all threats to wildlife must be considered together, not ...

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 ...