The night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) is a small green-and-yellow bird species long considered near-mythical across ...

Never mind the mammoth or the moa; few extinct animals capture the imagination quite like the thylacine. There are people ...

A rodent found in Laos has been determined to belong to a group thought to have gone extinct in the fossil records about 11 ...

The re-examination of an Ice Age fossil that has spent the last 120 years in the bowels of a museum has filled a major ...

Maryland has a new state shark, and it's sure to make some waves. The state legislature this week designated the Megalodon ...

Palaeontologists have used an Ice Age fossil to reveal extinct giant echidnas roamed south-eastern Australia during the ...

The discoverer of the first exoplanet speaks to EL PAÍS about the next big breakthrough he hopes to see: the first planet ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species that evolution also involved a return trip. Dozens ...

A recent study by Dr. John Moretti of the University of Texas and local caver John Young uncovered the remains of Ice Age ...

The endangered species list now includes two new species, and conservative officials say climate change is at fault.

Animal populations have fallen by 73% in some species over the past 50 years. Are we on a fast track to widespread species ...

Once common across the grasslands west of Melbourne, the Victorian grassland earless dragon was thought to be extinct for 54 ...