A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from remains found in the stomach of a naturally ...

Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia’s Boodjamulla National Park. The ground-dwelling species — Menura tyawanoides — is an ancient ancestor of ...

Conservationists in the Galapagos Islands have found a giant tortoise from a species thought to have become extinct more than a century ago. The adult female tortoise was found on the island of ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

Researchers have found footprints of large, bone-crushing dogs in the 12 million-year-old Ashfall Fossil Beds in northeastern Nebraska, suggesting these large carnivores may have survived a ...

The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for their demise. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...