When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature ...

Discover the astonishing tale of the coelacanth, a "living fossil" thought to be extinct for over 65 million years! This remarkable species was rediscovered off South Africa's Chalumna River in 1938, ...

“It’s extremely rare to find things that were once thought to be extinct, and to rediscover them,” Terry Gosliner, who ...

Long before the first dinosaur hatched, Earth's ancient life was already thriving. There were bizarre sea creatures and lumbering plant-eaters that ruled prehistoric landscapes for hundreds of ...

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

This seems to have solved the mystery of how the starfish got its arms. But it doesn’t necessarily answer the ‘why’. Imran ...

In 1980, a single male grasshopper was collected on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde. No one knew then that this ...

The Gonatus antarcticus squid had previously only been identified through remains found in fishing equipment and other animals Rachel Raposas Tue, June 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM PDT 3 min read ...

The three-foot-long specimen of the elusive species, which is only found in the icy waters around Antarctica, was filmed on Christmas Day 2024, and scientists are now sharing those findings with ...

As Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, Science News explores the vast range of shark sizes, from megaladon to the dwarf lanternshark.

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...