In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Researchers at the University of Memphis used a free app to rediscover a species of beetle that was thought to be extinct.

Quick Take Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, died, underscoring extinction and the emotional toll on caretakers.

The Christmas Island shrew is thought to be at least the third mammal species to go extinct on the island as a direct result ...

A new “Jurassic Park” movie is coming out next year, the latest installment of the blockbuster series all about the dangerous hubris in trying to bring dinosaurs back from extinction. Paleogeneticist ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

In a promising discovery, authorities have spotted the critically endangered flat-headed cat in Thailand for the first time ...