Many people around the world are obsessed with finding animals that are presumed extinct. Although this may sound impossible, animal rediscoveries happen more often than you might think. Some ...

When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature has gone the way of the dinosaur and the dodo, but on occasion, scientists ...

Other benefactors include the far-sighted Englishman John Knowles, who established Britain’s first zoological collection ...

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 ...