In the last ten years, at least 15 species have officially checked out, never to be seen again. It's ironic to think how ...

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

Sadly, a number of animals have also not been spotted in several years and are now presumed extinct. In order to move forward in conservation efforts, it's important to take a look back on some of ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times ... they could become the fourth subspecies of tiger to go extinct. The large yellow-footed tortoise, Chelonoidis denticulata (vulnerable), from ...

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...

Fifteen million years ago, now-extinct species of dolphins ... the true size of the megalodon (Otodus megalodon), which went extinct about six million years ago. The debate remains unresolved ...

The Xerces blue butterfly went extinct along the San Francisco coast some 80 years ago. But scientists have identified a ...

Eurasian elk are one of the largest deer species on the planet ... It’s not entirely clear when wild native brown bears went extinct in the UK. It could have been as long ago as the Bronze ...

A frog species, Alsodes vittatus, believed extinct since 1893, has been rediscovered in Chile. Scientists from the University ...

“The main fear that we have is that because we think [a species is] extinct, we no longer have to protect it,” Akçakaya tells The Scientist, adding that “it may actually go extinct, because we stop ...