These animals were thought to have vanished forever, only to make a surprising return. These remarkable animals are living proof that it's possible to reverse the damage we've done to the planet. They ...

Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off ...

Africa is a continent full of animals known as charismatic megafauna - that is, awe inducing beasties of large size, ...

An extinct snail found in a Bermuda alleyway led to biologists breeding 100,000 and releasing them back into the wild—and they're thriving.

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 ...

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 ...

Endangered species are animals that are at risk of disappearing forever, typically animals with dangerously low population numbers, shrinking habitats and a loss of geographic range. There are animals ...

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 ...