Kenny Travouillon works for the Western Australian Museum. He received funding from the Australian Biological Resource Study. Milo Barham has received funding from the Minerals Research Institute of ...

You are probably familiar with kangaroos. Wallabies too, and most likely quokkas as well. Less famous are their small endangered cousins, the bettongs. These little marsupials love to dig and have a ...

A rare shark species thought to be wiped out due to overfishing has been spotted for the first time after over five decades in Papua New Guinea, shedding more light on the region’s rich biodiversity.

A new species of a native bushland marsupial—closely related to the kangaroo—has been discovered but is already likely extinct, new research shows. Analyzing fossils collected from caves of the ...

Eight Socorro dove chicks have hatched at Chester Zoo this year, representing hope for a species that went extinct in the wild in the 1970s due to feral cats and habitat destruction from sheep. All ...

Conservationists at Chester Zoo have hatched eight Socorro dove chicks, offering new hope for a species extinct in the wild since 1972. Only around 200 of the ultra-rare birds exist today, all within ...

"They're 10 months old, and they're already 115 pounds," Colossal Biosciences says of dire wolves, Romulus and Remus Colossal Sciences A Colossal Biosciences representative confirmed that the dire ...

The loss of crucial genes over millions of years before the arrival of humans in Australia may have left thylacines more vulnerable to extinction. The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus ...

Genetic-sequencing techniques have uncovered the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever recorded — inside samples of teeth and bones from woolly and steppe mammoths. An analysis of the bones and ...