A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th ...

Despite its name, the Irish elk was widespread, with fossils found as far east as Siberia. The species likely went extinct ...

Scientists and conservationists here say they’ve brought a zebralike mammal back from the dead, giving the quagga a major win ...

Any eagle species that is alive in the present is smaller ... Haast's eagle became extinct sometime around 1400 AD when Polynesian settlers arrived in New Zealand. These settlers hunted moa ...

Closer to home, here in Montana the befuddled and dysfunctional Democratic Party has almost finished the job of marching itself to political extirpation. There’s no Endangered Species Act for ...

"This species of scallop has been extinct for almost 2 million years," the poster from North Carolina told Newsweek.

South African Rock Art Possibly Inspired by Long-Extinct Species Sep. 18 ... Giant Fanged Frog Went Unrecognized in Philippines Because It Was Nearly Identical to Even Larger Species Sep. 9 ...

Lonesome George was discovered motionless in his enclosure, one morning in June 2012. Overnight, George had taken not only ...

Instead of cloning the creature, however, scientists attempted to resurrect the quagga via “selective rebreeding” aka ...

It had a large head, bill, legs, and talons. Its bill was up to 130 mm long, and its talons were up to 75 mm long ...

The Scottish wildcat, a population of European wildcat found only in Scotland, is a critically endangered animal ... Scottish wildcat is not functionally extinct and numbers can bounce back ...

In 2023, a highly pathogenic bird flu leapt to seals in South America, killing some 17,000 elephant seal pups (about 97 ...