The word "dodo" is synonymous with extinct animals. In fact, if you asked people to name an extinct animal who wasn't a dinosaur or woolly mammoth, dodo bird would probably be the most popular ...

Ugandan wildlife authorities have reintroduced rhinos into a remote protected area where they were once poached into extinction, an event seen by conservationists as a milestone in efforts to support ...

In a new study, wild regent honeyeaters became vocal tutors, teaching their disappearing song to birds in a captive breeding ...

Fiona Pardington hopes an exhibition of her images of New Zealand’s extinct and endangered birds will encourage debate, as the nation weighs its environmental responsibilities.

Lost marsupials have been found alive in New Guinea after 6,000 years, highlighting hidden biodiversity and conservation urgency.

The first sea organisms suddenly vanished 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass extinction - The Kotlin Crisis.

Hidden within the dense forests of Indonesia lives the rarest tiger on the planet, the critically endangered Sumatran tiger.

A new study sheds light on the hidden lives of coastal marten. Researchers at Oregon State University have sharpened the picture of one of the West Coast’s most elusive mammals: the coastal marten.

Introduced species can wreak havoc on native ecosystems. Many states are flooding their waterways with them.

This video focuses on species that no longer exist in the wild and now survive only in controlled environments. It highlights the visual contrast between natural behaviors and artificial habitats ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.