The mountain pygmy possum, a tiny nocturnal marsupial, was once known only from Ice Age fossils. Today, we know where its ...

An adorable species once thought to be extinct on the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia seems to be getting a new lease on ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

The company that claims to have "resurrected" the dire wolf has its sights set on the woolly mammoth, dodo bird and Tasmanian ...

A company revealed Monday it’s created the “world’s first de-extinct animals,” two wolf pups genetically modified to resemble extinct dire wolves.

It became extinct in the 1600s ... What Australia has been doing is collecting tissues from marsupials in those areas that are most at risk and freezing them. This means that if a bush fire ...

Several at-risk marsupials escaped from a fenced-in sanctuary in western Australia so ecologists used a plane to track down the radio-collared animals. Photo from Cassandra Harvey / Australian ...

A group of scientists claims to have brought back to life a species of wolf that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago - but is it true? Here's all we know about the three pups created by ...

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 ...

Macropods are marsupials belonging to the family Macropodidae ... Six species have since become extinct. Another 11 species have been greatly reduced in numbers.