On a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, a rare species once declared extinct in the wild has been rediscovered. Partula ...

According to the BBC's Discover Wildlife website, these 10 animals were once presumed extinct. The third creature on this ...

RNAi – functions specifically to silence, or deactivate, genes. Among other applications, it promises to be groundbreaking as ...

An army of experts and citizen scientists devoted to documenting and protecting the country’s native bees is telling us a lot ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary ...

There’s something fascinating about prehistoric times, and it gets even more intriguing when you bring those ancient matters into our own world. Many movies deal with prehistory one way or ...

The findings include the first complete prehistoric human skeletons uncovered in Israel since the 1960s, which researchers say are among the best preserved in the world. “This is one of the most ...

The desert rat-kangaroo — a small marsupial species — was declared extinct in 1994. But, scientists believe it could be alive and “evading detection,” according to a new study. Photo from ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non ...

An extinct fish has been reintroduced to waterways in northern Victoria. The olive perchlet is a five to six centimetre fish and plays a key role in the ecosystem by eating tiny water insects ...