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

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

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 ...

In 2025, animal and plant life continue to be threatened by a number of factors, including hunting, habitat loss or degradation, climate change, forest fires, deforestation, and slash-and-burn and ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

Who doesn't love love — especially when it's good for the environment? A thrilling discovery in the South Downs National Park brings renewed hope for biodiversity in Britain. Conservationists have ...

In the last ten years, at least 15 species have officially checked out, never to be seen again. It's ironic to think how these creatures once roamed the planet with us, but now, they're just part of ...

“We see no possible way this could go wrong,” wrote the Jurassic World account on X, in tongue-in-cheek response to the news. Most experts USA TODAY spoke with agreed that attempts to de-extinct ...

A trail camera in a national park of New South Wales photographed a critically endangered animal long thought to be locally extinct. Photo from Mark Lees / DPIE via New South Wales National Parks and ...

Rangers are celebrating the sighting of a mammal once thought to be extinct in the Australian island it is native to. The echidna is an egg-laying, insect-eating mammal that is a native species to ...