First spotted in 1889, the Barbados threadsnake is the smallest known species of snake in the world. When fully grown, it’s ...

After nearly three decades, the silver-backed chevrotain, a diminutive and elusive animal, has been rediscovered in a ...

A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that ...

Until this spring, the world's smallest species of snake was considered lost to science, and quite possibly extinct — until ...

The Barbados threadsnake, the world's smallest snake, has been rediscovered after nearly two decades, having last been seen ...

What if the secret to cracking the world’s rare earth chokehold lay in the peaceful interiors of dead volcanoes? In a ...

Cuddly koala bears are adored by people all over the world, even by those who have never seen one in real life. But these ...

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

Without tigers to hunt them, deer, wild boar, and other grazing animals multiply uncontrollably. Their huge numbers strip ...

From Ireland's last Great Auk to a fish thought to have been extinct for 70 million years — there's so much to discover in ...

“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...