So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of ...

Picture this: you’re a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so ...

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...

Scientists have discovered mosquitoes can act like tiny "flying wildlife surveyors," helping researchers detect elusive and endangered animals in Australia's national parks. A team from Macquarie ...

Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

The pygmy possum has a stripe down its back and an unusually long fourth finger, twice as long as the rest of its digits, that it uses to extract insect larvae that bores down into wood. It was last ...

Scientists have described an exciting discovery: two marsupials that modern science thought to be extinct are still alive in ...

BANGKOK, Thailand (WKRC) - A wild cat that was considered "possibly extinct" by scientists for decades was once again found in the wild, proving to be a "significant win for conservation." The ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

Across the globe, thousands of species face the threat of extinction due to habitat loss, poaching, pollution, and climate ...

A new study reveals that for conservation efforts to be effective, all threats to wildlife must be considered together, not in isolation.