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 ...

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 ...

A man named Carlos Bocos posted photographs of a small marsupial on iNaturalist. That contribution helped scientists confirm a species believed extinct for more than 7,000 years was still alive. And ...

Fiona Pardington hopes an exhibition of her images of New Zealand’s extinct and endangered birds will encourage debate, as ...