Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

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 ...

For the last 10,000 years, thousands of species have perished from the Holocene extinction event, which is still ongoing. Unfortunately, due to human activity, around 150-200 species become extinct ...

Woolly mammoths, Tasmanian tigers, not-really-dire wolves – increasingly, genomics has revealed itself as a major potential player in the quest to revive long-extinct species. But here’s a question: ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

Scientists from the Canadian Museum of Nature have announced the discovery and description of an extinct rhinoceros from the Canadian High Arctic. The nearly complete fossil skeleton of the new ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there's a hidden ...

Some of these incredible creatures have already taken their final bow. So today, we’ve rounded up a list of animals that have sadly gone extinct: some in recent years, others within our lifetime. From ...