In 2025, the IUCN Red List officially declared several animal and plant species extinct, highlighting global biodiversity ...

While it is always a shame to see more animals go extinct, the report did include some good news. The IUCN noted that the ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

In Next of Kin at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, artist Christina Seely repurposes natural history specimens for an emotional exhibition about animal extinction. Installation view of the ...

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, ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

The "de-extinction" company Colossal Biosciences promises to fulfill that dream, at least for extinct animals like woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), dodos (Raphus cucullatus), and Tasmanian ...

A bison bull grazes in the fog in Yellowstone National Park. A bison bull grazes in the fog in Yellowstone National Park. Jon G. Fuller—VWPics/Universal Images Group/ Getty Images Contributor Here is ...