Millions of animals are at risk, but what are the rarest animals in the world? These are some of the most endangered animals, ...

It’s the first time that different species of ape, each with a distinctive body style and diet, have been found coexisting outside of Africa, researchers say. Based on the size and shape of ...

Just in the past decade, two mammal species have gone extinct: a bat known as the Christmas ... One way to think of a species, be it of ape or of ant, is as an answer to a puzzle: how to live ...

Nearly three dozen new animal and plant species have been declared extinct, according to an update on threatened species. On Thursday, the International Union for Conservation of Nature released ...

Should we bring extinct species back to life? Sometimes whole species of animals or plants become extinct due to the changes in their habitat, predators or disease. But over the last 500 years ...

There was a great diversity of ape species in the Miocene, with dozens of species known from the fossil record across Africa, Europe, and Asia. These species varied in their anatomy and ecology ...

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 ...

Among the other extinct species in Australia is the lesser bilby, a burrowing marsupial that once thrived in arid regions but was last recorded in the 1950s. The pig-footed bandicoot, known for ...