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, including elephants, rhinos, hippos, giraffes and more. But despite their 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 ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

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 ...

As the Trump administration slashes funding for health, energy and climate research, there’s one science the administration is promoting: de-extinction. Earlier this month, a biotechnology company ...

Dire wolves were massive and highly intelligent animals nearly the size of a small horse, capable of ripping a man’s arm off as easily as a dog kills a rat. They lived in cold regions in a place ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration is trumpeting a biotech company’s claim of reviving a long-lost wolf as an argument for slashing ...