Somewhere on Earth, species are vanishing faster than ever. The 2025 IUCN Red List update revealed that nearly 49,000 species ...

Across the globe, a small number of animal species are now so rare that only a few individuals remain in the wild. Habitat ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

Unfortunately, as the world changes, some animals just can’t evolve quickly enough to make it, and they go extinct. This has been happening since the earliest life forms on Earth. Today, humans are a ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

Swedish scientists have successfully extracted RNA from an extinct Tasmanian tiger, potentially revolutionizing genetic studies by revealing active genes and ancient viral history.

On April 7, the biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences announced it had brought dire wolves back from extinction, explicitly stating it was "the rebirth of the once extinct dire wolf." Now, its ...