Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. Extinction can be a hard reality to confront. It’s one thing to learn about animals like the woolly ...

On one of the final days of 1938, a fishing trawler off the coast of South Africa reeled in a massive creature unlike anything the crew had seen before. It was nearly five feet in length, and its fins ...

Far too many animals from Earth’s second-most remote continent have gone extinct in the past 10,000 years. Here’s one such example. In the year 1930, a striking photograph was taken. To this day, it ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia’s extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the world, from platypus to koalas and wombats. Tragically, Australia is the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Two researchers with the University of Memphis announced Monday that they have rediscovered an insect believed to have gone extinct, and last seen before the turn of the millennium.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...