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

Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, ...

This video explores five species once declared extinct that were later found alive in surprising locations. It follows the ...

A tiny fish long feared lost has resurfaced in Bolivia, offering a rare conservation success story amid widespread habitat ...

As a critically endangered species, the manumea could be considered mostly dead, but there’s a big difference between that ...

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 ...

Not every extinct animal vanished in plain sight. Some disappeared into remote regions humans barely study. This list ranks ...

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple ...

Mark Hebblewhite receives funding from National Science Foundation. Benjamin Larue and Jonathan Farr do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...

It's the reptilian feel-good story of the year: A species of giant tortoise thought to be extinct for 150 years turns out to be alive and living on an even more remote island than the one from which ...