In 2025, the IUCN Red List officially declared several animal and plant species extinct, highlighting global biodiversity ...

An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, conservation authorities and an NGO said Friday.

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 ...

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

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The moa were a group of giant flightless birds that lived in New Zealand. They disappeared from Earth about 600 years ago, ...