Australia's most endangered marsupial is showing signs of recovery after a 30-year conservation effort, offering hope for wildlife protection everywhere, according to University of Western Australia ...

The olive perchlet were thought to be extinct in Victoria. Picture: Supplied “We’re supporting Victoria’s treasured native species by making sure they are protected and helping them to ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non ...

An extinct fish has been reintroduced to waterways in northern Victoria. The olive perchlet is a five to six centimetre fish and plays a key role in the ecosystem by eating tiny water insects ...

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins, whales and large sea cows roamed the world’s oceans, topping the underwater food chain. Yet back then, any one of these creatures ...

DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine—On the eastern front here, Russia is saddling up a mainstay of battlefields from earlier centuries to counter Ukraine’s drone army: horses and donkeys. The hoofed mammals ...

The desert bettong, or ngudlukanta, has been listed as extinct since 1994. Photos taken by Hedley Herbert Finlayson who ‘rediscovered’ the ngudlukanta in the 1930s. Credit: HH Finlayson (The Red ...

Using fossils, he argued in 1796 that many species had become extinct in the wake of natural catastrophes. Humans had been causing extinctions at least since the Ice Age. Polynesian expansion ...

28,000-year-old Neanderthal-and-human 'Lapedo child' lived tens of thousands of years after our closest relatives went extinct News By Kristina Killgrove published 7 March 2025 ...

Researchers are moving DNA information from past species to living ones. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your ...

Woolly mammoths roamed the frozen tundras of Europe, Asia and North America until they went extinct around 4,000 years ago. Colossal made a splash in 2021 when it unveiled an ambitious plan to ...

Woolly mammoths roamed the frozen tundras of Europe, Asia and North America until they went extinct around 4,000 years ago. Colossal made a splash in 2021 when it unveiled an ambitious plan to ...