True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time ...

Bringing extinct animals back sounds like science fiction, but it’s becoming real science. Companies like Colossal want to revive species like the dodo and woolly mammoth using cloning and ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

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 ...

So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of years, but it keeps happening! Animals believed extinct that were found ...

The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This is the first-ever recorded global bird ...

The late 1900s were a time of rapid change for our planet, and unfortunately, some of its most unique inhabitants did not survive. Between the 1980s and 1990s, several animal species disappeared ...

Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? CU Boulder environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated ...

An illustration of Procoptodon goliah, a giant kangaroo that weighed up to about 550 pounds and went extinct around 40,000 years ago Nobu Tamura via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-3.0 For many people, ...

Last week, The Guardian dropped the news that this common, bright blue and black garden-dweller could be extinct within the next 30–40 years thanks to climate damage. It is quite frankly terrifying ...