The animals — a pygmy long-fingered possum and a newly identified ring-tailed glider — are examples of rare “Lazarus species” that reappear after vanishing from the scientific record. Each species has ...

Business holdings often cover vast areas and can deliver meaningful biodiversity recovery. Biodiversity Benchmark provides a clear route forward.

Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back.

Debates over responsibility for past species loss generate heat but little light. Moving forward requires context, evidence and Indigenous knowledge.

Once-threatened koala populations in parts of Australia are showing surprising signs of genomic recovery, according to a ...

The corncrake, which was once abundant in coastal and rural Ireland, became an endangered species due to change in land use, ...

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...

The predator, nicknamed Raptorex, lived about 60 million years before the T. rex and was slightly larger than the human male, scientists said. The findings, to be released Friday ...

Explore the world's largest scorpion and uncover intriguing details about these formidable arachnids. Dive into our article ...

Because we can’t consume the earth to save it Lithium came into existence minutes after the Big Bang. Stars still produce lithium. How it accumulates on earth, given that it’s an unstable element ...

Amphibians and reptiles face an unprecedented global extinction crisis, with a significant proportion of species threatened with disappearance. Amphibians ...