Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

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 ...

"Its forests may shelter yet more hidden relics of a past Australia." Scientists discover marsupial species thought to have ...

The rare fish was last spotted in Victoria, Australia in 1929 North Central CMA A fish previously declared extinct has been released back into the wild in Australia. The olive perchlet, a small ...

England’s “green and pleasant land” is set to be transformed in the next 60 years as rising temperatures and other human ...

A plant thought to be extinct has been rediscovered in northern Queensland after 58 years, with the help of a community-driven species identification smartphone app. It was last recorded to have been ...

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.

"It's hard not to feel like a proud parent seeing them out there thriving and making history," London Zoo bird keeper Charlotte James said Jonny Shepherd/TNC-ZSL; TNC-ZSL The once-extinct Sihek bird ...