Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

Every creature that has disappeared leaves behind more than just a memory they leave lessons about ecosystems, extinction ...

How did extinct animals move? Paleontologists are interested in figuring this out since it can tell us more about their ways of life, such as whether they were agile enough to hunt prey. It can also ...

Scientists extracted 39,000-year-old RNA from a frozen woolly mammoth, revealing which genes were active when it died.

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

Trail cameras at a Georgia national park recorded predator considered locally extinct outside a protected facility, photos show. Screengrab from Facebook video shared by Georgia’s Agency of Wildlife ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the ...