Let's talk about some fascinating extinct animals and their last recorded ... disappeared rapidly due to invasive species and habitat destruction, with its last confirmed sighting in 1662.

Scientists uncovered only one male specimen from 1979 to 1982, though, and they soon declared the species extinct. But on a 2023 research trip, researchers say, they rediscovered the species and ...

We weren’t even sure if Paranthropus remains come from a single species. Skip to ... and no DNA older than 20,000 years has been recovered from that continent—well after Paranthropus went extinct.

They were looking for photos of an at-risk mouse species — but noticed several images of a fluffy-tailed creature. It was an animal long thought to be locally extinct. Ecologists with the New ...

They were also able to distinguish Zygomaturus and Palorchestes from other living and extinct large marsupials, but they couldn't differentiate the two species from each other. This is not unusual ...

says the new record of the extinct ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, or “Jefferson’s ground sloth,” “provides a better understanding of the distribution of this species in Kansas and on ...

Eric Trump told attendees at a cryptocurrency conference that he wants some big banks to “go extinct,” echoing complaints from other members of the Trump family about the traditional financial ...

The research used DNA from 26 individual saola hunting trophies to establish a “reference genome” for the species — the first complete saola genome ever derived, Heller and colleagues report ...

you can just “pick your favorite species and call up Colossal”? For example, Colossal has also announced that it has cloned a red wolf. Unlike the dire wolf, the red wolf is not extinct, though it ...

Considering the species hasn't been seen in over a decade, this is an invaluable signal that it hasn't yet gone extinct. "Now that we can definitively say that we've identified calls of the tooth ...

“We might’ve been able to make a species go extinct 150 years ago by harpooning it too much or shooting it out of the sky. But today, we have different options, and extinction could be ...