For the vast majority of human existence, extinction has been a one-way process. If a species has gone extinct, the species ...

The brush-tailed bettong once inhabited most of Australia, but these days it lives in a tiny fraction of its former range. Now, the Marna Banggara initiative is bringing it back to the country’s Yorke ...

Around 110 million years ago, an apparent dinosaur ate two pterosaurs and four fish and, for whatever reason, threw them back up. A rare mix of geological conditions preserved this dinosaur vomit for ...

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 find the DNA of a 300,000-year-old horse in Schöningen, driven to extinction by hunting, next to a wooden spear ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on Friday updated its regulation and monitoring of several iconic shark and ray species ...

Arian Wallach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Erick Lundgren receives funding from the Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Alberta ...

The vaquita, found in the northern Gulf of California, is the most endangered marine mammal species in the world. Illegal fishing is to blame.

An ancient predatory dinosaur that lived 220 million years ago, Maleriraptor kuttyi, redefines carnivorous dinosaurs' origin theory.

If you ever come face-to-face with the wrong kind of shark, there's something you probably want to avoid. Just a hint: ...

The "first of its kind in the UK" report identified the country's rarest species, including the high brown fritillary ...