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 ...

In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their ...

Scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from an unusual place: the stomach ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of ...

While it is always a shame to see more animals go extinct, the report did include some good news. The IUCN noted that the ...

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 ...

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 Trump administration wants to make economic impacts a factor in what was previously a science-based decision on what's ...