Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

For almost 200 years, no one knew where the last living great auks were. Using DNA testing, one of them was found in Cincinnati.

With human activity having quite an effect on the Earth, many animal species have gone extinct. Fortunately, though, that ...

“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy Fraenkel, executive secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

A selection of works from the Pop art icon's "Vanishing Animals" series are included in Artnet Auctions's Post-War and ...

The introduction of foxes and cats by European settlers rapidly wiped out the species from its semi-arid range on mainland ...

The Ross Park Zoo has selected red wolves as its Animal of the Month for November, highlighting a critically endangered ...