The Art of Extinct Species” is now on display with more than 50 works by 34 artists who have painted, photographed, sketched ...

A population boom in New Zealand's endangered flightless kakapo parrot demonstrates how species can claw their way back from the brink.

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

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 ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

One animal holds a world record so bizarre it required the invention of modern cloning just to make it possible. The Pyrenean ibex died out, came back to life, and then vanished again within minutes.

With their slender bodies and long front legs, Miracinonyx trumani—often nicknamed the "American cheetah"—was long thought to be a North American analog of the African big cat. But in a new study ...