True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time ...

On a lawn inside the Bronx Zoo, rows of headstones display multiple animal species, making for an eerie display during the month of October. An Instagram post from an account known as Inside History ...

Roman Uchytel is a Ukrainian paleontologist and graphic designer who recreates prehistoric fauna, providing an interesting scale comparison of our ancestors' features. He contrasts the sizes of ...

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

The bandicoot was extinct in the wild in 1991, but the marsupial has now been “bred for survival” and will be released across ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

The eastern barred bandicoot was declared extinct in the wild in 1991 after the population dwindled to just 60 living in a ...

A coelacanth thought extinct for 70 million years shocked scientists when it was rediscovered alive in 1938 off South Africa.

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...

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 ...

Steven Spielberg’s new Netflix documentary series has quickly climbed the streaming charts shortly after its release. The show has drawn attention from viewers exploring its large-scale depiction of ...