An extinct snail found in a Bermuda alleyway led to biologists breeding 100,000 and releasing them back into the wild—and they're thriving.

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, which has produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves and the woolly mouse, seeks to bring back extinct species.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Modern-day eagles are large birds, but they’re nowhere near ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

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 ...

Islands are famous for producing some of the world's strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that the evolution of bird species on Hawaiian islands includes an ibis with unusually ...

Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the ...

Volcanoes that have laid dormant for millions of years could revolutionize the sourcing of important rare earth elements, a new study published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters suggests.

Scientists think a quarter of the total bird population in the United States in the early 1800s was passenger pigeons. But then something changed: 110 years ago Sunday, Martha – the very last ...