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 ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

Learn about two marsupial species discovered in New Guinea that were thought to have been extinct for 6,000 years.

For the first time, Colossal BioSciences unveiled its Dallas labs where it is spending millions of dollars researching how to revive extinct animals and save endangered ones.

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 ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, ...

Scientists have rediscovered two marsupial species in New Guinea that were believed to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago. The ...

Mass extinction is not just a theory; Earth has already gone through five of them, including the event about 65 million years ...

Far too many animals from Earth’s second-most remote continent have gone extinct in the past 10,000 years. Here’s one such example. In the year 1930, a striking photograph was taken. To this day, it ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...