The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

The clawed creature — named for its elongated forehead and flat skulls — was even labeled “possibly extinct” within Thailand, ...

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 ...

Image via Getty Images An animal long deemed to possibly be extinct has reappeared after nearly three decades. Scientists in ...

Panthera Thailand and Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation announced on Dec. 25 that the ...

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 ...

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

Some animals matter so much to their ecosystems that losing them is like removing the keystone from an arch—the entire ...

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 ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...