Critically endangered animals like the vaquita, Javan rhinoceros, saola, Amur leopard, Sumatran orangutan, and northern white ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature has ...

Many people around the world are obsessed with finding animals that are presumed extinct. Although this may sound impossible, animal rediscoveries happen more often than you might think. Some ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

When is extinction really extinction? By comparing species population data, geographic isolation, and recorded sightings, this video ranks which of Earth’s “lost” animals have the highest chance of ...

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...

In the world of biology, being declared extinct is usually a permanent sentence, but nature occasionally loves to prove us wrong. These incredible animals, often referred to as “Lazarus species,” ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a collaboration of scientists, indigenous communities and citizen scientists.