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.

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

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data.

For years, headlines have warned that Earth is entering its sixth mass extinction, but a new study suggests these fears may ...

Curitiba, Brazil used to be forests, wetlands, fields and streams before it was developed over the last half-century. Gilberto Jacob via Unsplash As new species are discovered around the world, others ...

The arachnid, which has been named the white knuckled wolf spider, because of its distinctive pale knuckles on its palps, was ...

Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are ...

But earlier this month, researchers announced something overwhelmingly positive: Green sea turtles, the iconic marine species ...

Southern Ontario is home to 133 at-risk species, 98% of which could be locally extinct in the next 25 years if the provincial government takes no action to protect them. But a new study from the ...