Sometimes, nature delivers a surprise that feels almost miraculous. Scientists have confirmed that two small marsupial species — the pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider — are still ...

Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

Scientists estimate that roughly one quarter of all plant and animal species on Earth are now at risk of extinction. Habitat ...

Scientists have confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

The pygmy possum has a stripe down its back and an unusually long fourth finger, twice as long as the rest of its digits, that it uses to extract insect larvae that bores down into wood. It was last ...

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as the ethical questions are thorny.

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

Steven Spielberg’s new Netflix documentary series has quickly climbed the streaming charts shortly after its release. The show has drawn attention from viewers exploring its large-scale depiction of ...

Jason M Ramos/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 Prehistoric Earth was a terrifying place, with giant, fearsome creatures roaming an equally deadly world of erupting volcanoes and primordial swamps. Survival ...