Animals believed extinct that were found alive even have a name. They are called “Lazarus Animals” after the biblical Lazarus ...

Illegal hunting and poaching are also taking a toll. Unless measures are taken, these ten endangered animals could be extinct ...

Many remarkable animal species have gone extinct due to human activities, climate change, and habitat destruction. The Spix’s Macaw, Golden Toad, and Baiji Dolphin were lost due to environmental ...

The purpose: to capture for posterity species that someday might be extinct ... nearly 10,000 animals in the Ark. He plans to keep going to 15,000, which could take another 10-15 years.

Stellar's Sea Cow (Extinct since 1768) Steller's Sea Cow was discovered in the Bering Sea by a Russian expedition in 1741. The giant seal-like creature, exploited for its meat and fat, was hunted ...

“It’s not too late to stop more plants and animals from going extinct, but we have to act fast,” said Greenwald. Bachman’s warbler: Bachman’s warbler was a small yellow and black songbird that once ...

Reintroduction of captive-bred animals has had mixed success. This California butterfly lost habitat to grazing and drought and is considered to be extinct. The last live one was seen in the wild ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.

A growing group of scientists is trying to bring back extinct animals, an idea that is drawing closer than ever because of recent advances in gene editing. Shapiro, one of the world’s leading ...

Should we bring extinct species back to life? Sometimes whole species of animals or plants become extinct due to the changes in their habitat, predators or disease. But over the last 500 years ...