And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

‘Since everything is bigger in Texas, this is perhaps not surprising.’ By Margherita Bassi Published Jun 26, 2025 1:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

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

Most of us saw Jurassic Park and its many sequels as a cautionary tale. Some scientists, however, apparently saw it as a game plan. While no one has brought dinosaurs back (yet), Texas-based genetic ...

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, ...

"Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction." But that all depends on your definition of de-extinction — and ...