A small, water-loving feline that many scientists had quietly written off has stepped back into view in the forests of ...

The Christmas Island shrew is thought to be at least the third mammal species to go extinct on the island as a direct result ...

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

Quick Take Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, died, underscoring extinction and the emotional toll on caretakers.

An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, ...

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

To save it, they undertook one of the largest captive snail breeding and reintroduction efforts in Australian, and perhaps ...

Scientists successfully extract RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, thylacine, revealing how its genes functioned before its extinction.

In a promising discovery, authorities have spotted the critically endangered flat-headed cat in Thailand for the first time ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

A long-lost prehistoric bird species makes a triumphant comeback in its native land after being considered extinct.

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 ...