Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

For almost 200 years, no one knew where the last living great auks were. Using DNA testing, one of them was found in ...

Scientists from the Canadian Museum of Nature have announced the discovery and description of an extinct rhinoceros from the ...

Researchers have described a whole new family of extinct crocodyliforms based on the fossilized remains of a single teenage croc named Elton discovered in the Blackleaf Formation.

The skeletons of a duck-billed dinosaur found more than 100 years ago are so well-preserved that they contain fleshy body ...

A critically endangered spider not seen in the UK for 40 years has been rediscovered. Aulonia albimana, which was last ...

It was a race against time to find the spider with the team only having four hours to search for it before they had to leave.

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data.

Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia’s Boodjamulla National Park. The ground-dwelling species – Menura tyawanoides – is an ancient ancestor of ...

For years, headlines have warned that Earth is entering its sixth mass extinction, but a new study suggests these fears may ...

The arachnid, which has been named the white knuckled wolf spider, because of its distinctive pale knuckles on its palps, was ...