The moa were a group of giant flightless birds that lived in New Zealand. They disappeared from Earth about 600 years ago, ...

Colossal Biosciences said it is working with famous "Lord of the Rings" director Sir Peter Jackson to bring the moa back to ...

The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

The dodo's closest living relative, the Samoan manumea, was spotted alive in the wild, after being missing for years.

A manumea, the closest living relative of the extinct dodo bird, has been sighted for the first time since 2013, raising hope ...

Freed from the threat of invasive predators, Galapagos birds are performing astonishing feats of return and innovation – 200 ...

The Snowy Owl has vanished from Sweden, marking the first time in 20 years that the country has officially lost a bird ...

Around 16,000 new species are described each year, but most animals and plants are listed as threatened as soon as they are ...

A milestone family trip to Maui offers sightings of red-crested cardinals, Hawaiian black-necked stilts, wandering tattlers, ...

Every new extinction ripples out beyond the affected species, from ecosystems to human knowledge across culture, spirituality ...

As a critically endangered species, the manumea could be considered mostly dead, but there’s a big difference between that ...