True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time. But in some rare cases, animals believed to be lost for good have ...

On one of the final days of 1938, a fishing trawler off the coast of South Africa reeled in a massive creature unlike anything the crew had seen before. It was nearly five feet in length, and its fins ...

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 ...

The bird is of cultural significance to the Māori people of New Zealand, and its numbers are starting to increase again.

Each day, 200 species of flora and fauna go extinct. Despite these numbers, it is rare to watch a species cease to exist in ...

In the Andes of Colombia, a small creature was rediscovered for the first time in 20 years. Raul Andres Galvis-Cordoba and Juan Manuel Carvajalino-Fernández (2025) Check List The summaries below were ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Two researchers with the University of Memphis announced Monday that they have rediscovered an insect believed to have gone extinct, and last seen before the turn of the millennium.

In 2012, Sri Lanka’s National Red List pronounced the towering Doona ovalifolia tree “extinct in the wild.” Known locally as pini-beraliya, the species lingered only as a single cultivated specimen in ...

Last week, The Guardian dropped the news that this common, bright blue and black garden-dweller could be extinct within the next 30–40 years thanks to climate damage. It is quite frankly terrifying ...