Scientists successfully extract RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, thylacine, revealing how its genes functioned before its extinction.

This video highlights three modern animals that stand as the closest living relatives of some of the world’s most iconic extinct species. It explains how genetic links, fossil evidence, and ...

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 ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

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 ...