Unearthed footage of the Tasmanian tiger has been released - the last-known glimpse of Australia’s most famous extinct predator. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NSFA) posted the ...

South America's largest land mammal has made a historic comeback. The South American tapir hasn't been spotted in the Atlantic Forest for over 100 years and was considered extinct in Brazil's coastal ...

In the southern reaches of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, a striking image has emerged from the sand and heat: one of the world’s rarest animals, the Gobi bear, caught on camera alongside her cub. Footage ...

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 ...