Scientists have rediscovered two marsupial species in New Guinea that were believed to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago. The ...

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Researchers came across a tiny long-fingered possum and a ring-tailed glider living in the rainforest in the Indonesian province of West Papua. Find out more here.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across the globe, a small number of animal species are now so rare that only a few individuals remain in the wild. Habitat loss, ...

New images from Thailand's DNP and Panthera prove the existence and rediscovery of one of the world's most Endangered and least known wild cats, the flat-headed cat, in Thailand's Princess Sirindhorn ...

Human beings are the greatest threat to the survival of endangered species, as we are the ones destroying their natural ...

The world’s rarest parrot, declared extinct in the wild, has hatched at a zoo. The Spix’s macaw – famous as the character Blu in the film "Rio" – was born at the Centre for the Conservation of ...