The study also found that six other seasonal killifish species also exist in the same habitat, making the region the most ...

"What's most important is the next steps that we take in the future." Experts note 'there's still a possibility' an extinct ...

Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are rediscovered, leaving them without protection as threatened species.

Scientists find the DNA of a 300,000-year-old horse in Schöningen, driven to extinction by hunting, next to a wooden spear that killed it.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world.

Scientists examine the mummified remains of a 39,000-year-old mammoth nicknamed Yuka, whose tissue yielded ancient RNA in a ...

In October 2024, deep-technical divers off the coast of North Maluku, Indonesia, recorded the first-ever underwater images of ...

The frozen remains of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka preserved details about the animal’s last moments alive ...

There is conclusive evidence that Crocidura trichura populations declined dramatically since 1900. In fact, some suspected it went extinct not long after that. But in 1985, researchers spotted an ...

Using next-generation instruments and groundbreaking DNA-reading techniques, scientists have uncovered much of the genetic code of the woolly mammoth, a prehistoric species of ele ...

A 40,000-year-old juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka is not only remarkable because she was uncovered nearly intact or her ...

Scientists extracted 39,000-year-old RNA from a frozen woolly mammoth, revealing which genes were active when it died.