The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has declared that the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura ...

Palorchestes azael was an unusual marsupial herbivore. It had retracted nasal bones on the skull, which means it could have had a small trunk like that of tapirs. Carli Peters of the Universidade do ...

Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, ...

The Christmas Island shrew was a small, short-legged creature with a pointed muzzle. Like other shrews, it resembled a mouse and weighed around 4-6 grams (under 0.2 oz). It was once abundant on ...

A new marsupial species closely related to the kangaroo was discovered in Australia, but it might already have gone extinct. Scientists, including those from the Curtin University, found the new ...

Koalas were officially declared endangered Friday in eastern Australia. This comes as the marsupials continue to fall prey to chlamydia and lose their habitats to land clearing and climate change.

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

A trail camera in a national park of New South Wales photographed a critically endangered animal long thought to be locally extinct. Photo from Mark Lees / DPIE via New South Wales National Parks and ...

Humans are quite good at eradicating unwanted species when they set their mind to it. Sometimes, they do it without even trying. But, every once in a while, an animal proves more wily than anticipated ...

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