Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Dallas-based Colossal aims to reintroduce extinct species, including the woolly mammoth. Here's how it plans to get there.

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

For more than 80 years, the Chel snakehead was thought to be extinct — until a team of researchers rediscovered the rare fish in India.

Scientists also declared several other extinctions, including the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire.

As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

Biodiversity is critical to maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Experts are stunned by comeback of near-extinct animals: 'A ...

London Zoo is celebrating the birth of 33 Darwin’s frogs, following the zoo’s urgent mission to rescue the critically ...

Earth has lost some of its most fascinating creatures to extinction. From mighty woolly mammoths to the mysterious Tasmanian ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Once abundant on Socorro Island, part of Mexico’s Revillagigedo Archipelago, the Socorro dove was last seen in the wild over ...