Amy Scott, host of the podcast "How We Survive," reports on a company that's working on de-extinction innovation to try and ...

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 ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the “sixth mass extinction” – the first to be caused by ...

What if the past was not really gone forever? Creatures like the saber toothed tiger, the woolly mammoth, and the dodo bird once roamed Earth, but are now classified as extinct. In many cases, human ...

The once-extinct black rhino population in Mozambique is poised for a comeback after five decades thanks to a generous donation by South Africa. Ten of these critically endangered rhinos were ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 35 species of falcons roam the Earth’s skies at ...

For the vast majority of human existence, extinction has been a one-way process. If a species has gone extinct, the species is forever lost to the world, until now. Thanks to advances in genetics, ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia’s “gentle and specialized creatures” were “unable to cope with changed conditions and introduced enemies”. The role of these “enemies” ...