A US company made worldwide headlines by “de-extincting” the dire wolf. Now it wants to bring back the Tasmanian tiger. But ...

The thylacine died a year later, and although unverified wild sightings persisted for decades, the species is now considered ...

A volcano that erupted after being asleep for more than 100,000 years is leading more volcanologists to say we must redefine ...

The Balston’s pygmy perch was long thought to be extinct from the Perth region, but a discovery has found it alive and ...

An ancient reptile once thought to be an early turtle ancestor actually belonged to an entirely different group.

For almost 100 years, the Blue-fronted Lorikeet was more mystery than bird. Scientists first described the small green parrot in the 1920s after finding specimens on Buru Island in eastern Indonesia.

All-female species have been long thought of as evolutionary dead ends – but one fish has defied the odds to live without ...

EXPERTS from the zoo, with the help of the Mountain Bongo Project (MBP), have discovered the animals around 200km from their recognised stronghold.

The world’s rarest marsupial, once thought entirely extinct, may have a second chance for survival, thanks to the DNA in its ...

A trio of researchers uncovered a massive marine reptile with the scientific name Tylosaurus rex after a hefty amount of ...

Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period.