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

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

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

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 ...

Scientists extracted RNA from a 130-year-old specimen, uncovering which genes were active before the animal went extinct.

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

A BIRD once thought to be locally extinct has been spotted near a village church. A hawfinch has been spotted by D. Webb at Walford Church, who previously spotted one of the birds in Marcle Ridge in ...

Patrick D. Nunn receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change, and the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council Luiza Corral Martins ...