It took thousands of years to develop the world's extraordinary range of domesticated farm animals—an estimated 8,800 ...

A rare beetle might be extinct in England after a survey failed to confirm any sightings, a charity said. Conservation ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

Scientists working to bring back the woolly mammoth have created genetically engineered mice that they say have several ...

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

This rare marsupial's comeback story shows how protecting individual species helps maintain healthy ecosystems for both ...

There is much concern about the accelerated pace of extinctions globally, so when a species is rediscovered, it gives hope to ...

New research reignites debate over the size of this extinct giant, also suggesting it looked unlike a great white ...

It comes after an American bio-engineering company, Colossal Biosciences, told RNZ it’s interested in extinct New Zealand ...

The Galapagos Rail had not been seen on this island since Charles Darwin's visit to the archipelago in 1835, until now.