A small fish swimming in the waters of Mexico and Texas has caused a big issue for scientists. The Amazon molly is a species ...

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 ...

The Japanese wolf, a species thought to have gone extinct more than a century ago, may still roam the rugged mountain terrain ...

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 ...

In 1952, the Government of India officially declared the cheetah extinct, making it the only large carnivore species to have ...

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.

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 ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record is formed. They investigated how dinosaur and mammal bones are ...

the tarsier is a very peculiar small animal.in fact it is one of the smallest known primates, no larger than an adult men's hand.© Tesalonika tengker/Shutterstock.com True extinction is final, a point ...