Students and naturalists have been sneaking onto private land to extricate threatened native plants: “This is a war between ...

Trail cameras in Australia’s Pilliga conservation area capture family of once locally extinct Shark Bay bandicoots, marking progress in restoring species to region.

Claims of fireflies, also called lightning bugs, going extinct or the current generation being the last to see them often circulate on social media, and while their populations are in decline like ...

Trail camera snaps 'gem' of creature locally extinct for 150 years in Australia by Lauren Liebhaber edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

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 ...

But as cool as dinosaurs are, they aren't the only extinct prehistoric creatures worth studying. What about the so-called "hell pigs" (entelodonts)? Or gorilla-horse hybrids (chalicotheres)?