THE secrets of the woolly rhino’s demise has finally been revealed after stunned scientists found DNA in a place they weren’t ...

It was a challenge due to the lack of knowledge about the creature. Officials announce plans to reestablish population of ...

Researchers in the Czech Republic are celebrating the birth of four rare Barbary lion cubs — three females and one male — marking a significant boost for a subspecies that has been extinct in the wild ...

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, ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

The history of the Earth spans about 4.5 billion years, during which countless creatures have appeared and gone extinct thanks to evolution. The only evidence we have that they existed is their ...

Dozens of adventurers are hoping to claim a $10,000 reward, which is on offer to anyone who can provide proof that the South ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

HAGERMAN, Idaho — Long before the Snake River lived between farmland and small towns in southern Idaho, the Hagerman Valley was home to saber-toothed cats, mastodons, 100-pound beavers, Hagerman ...

"From the frozen tundra of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetics labs of Harvard University, a group of young scientists--under the guidance of Dr. George Church, the most brilliant geneticist of our ...