Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris amoyensis (critically endangered, possibly extinct in the wild), has been seen for more than a decade.

This small, possibly extinct marsupial from the inhospitable Sturt Stony Desert may have had a solid skull built for hard biting. But not enough to bite through the kinds of foods biologists used ...

The night parrot, presumed extinct, has been sighted in Australia after decades. Conservationists are ecstatic as Indigenous rangers uncover new data about the bird’s habits, fostering hopes for ...

Researchers have rediscovered a rare fish species presumed to be extinct after it was not seen for more than eight decades. The last sighting of the Chel snakehead, or Channa amphibeus ...

More specific carbon-dating techniques for Paleolithic bones could help researchers develop an updated timeline of how Neanderthals, who experts believe went extinct roughly 40,000 years ago ...

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 ...

The rare fish was last spotted in Victoria, Australia in 1929 North Central CMA A fish previously declared extinct has been released back into the wild in Australia. The olive perchlet ...

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 ...

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 ...

mapress A rare fish species thought to be extinct for over 80 years was rediscovered in India. The journal Zootaxa announced on Friday, Jan. 31, that a Chel snakehead, also known as Channa ...

It was caught on tape-ir. After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, the South American tapir was spotted alive and well in Brazil in footage blowing up online. In January ...

This find is making fish-tory. A rare fish species thought to have gone extinct in the early 20th century was recorded three times in 2024 by researchers in India, according to a newly published ...