The Oceanic country has been inhabited by numerous strange creatures, some of them already extinct, such as the moa, a ...

Big animals are exciting. The largest animal on Earth today is the blue whale which can reach 98 feet long – enormous (and the largest recorded blue whale even hit 110 feet)! But some extinct ...

Unfortunately, animals go extinct every single year, often due to human activity. As we move towards a more sustainable future, we can hopefully change our track record as a species! Still, in the ...

This extinct bird might be the key to restoring the biosphere. From the wooly mammoth to the passenger pigeon, extinct species once maintained the balance of the earth’s delicate ecosystems. But ...

Global population trends among 71,000 animal species show nearly half are "sliding toward extinction," some of them at alarming rates, a new study warns. Researchers found 48% of the species in ...

Some scientists have even suggested that nearly 40% of the species currently residing on our planet could be extinct as early as 2050. But is this just a worst-case scenario?

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

Some species have faced the fate of anthropogenic extinction due to factors such as habitat destruction, pollution, climate change and hunting.

Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh invested $15 million in Colossal Biosciences to bring ...

Some of Asia's largest animals, including tigers and elephants, are defying 12,000 years of extinction trends by thriving alongside humans, a new study has revealed.

Ask a 10-year-old to name some extinct animals and they can usually rattle off ancient species such as the Tasmanian Tiger, Woolly Mammoth and Dodo.

In some cases, de-extinction targets species with a living equivalent fulfilling similar ecological functions. For example, one reason the thylacine went extinct was that people perceived it as a ...