The Dodo bird is one of the most famous birds in the world, despite the fact that nobody alive has actually seen one. They have been extinct since the 17th century, thanks almost entirely to humans.

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Bangladesh has announced the steady comeback of the Batagur baska, or northern river terrapin — one of the world's rarest ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

These wild horses were introduced to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in 1998 as part of a "rewilding experiment." ...

The Pilgrims were idiots. If they had just taken a sharp left at Plymouth Rock and sailed southward for another 500 miles, they could have spent that first winter luxuriating at a hotel in St.

The Trump administration has proposed sweeping revisions to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that could significantly change how the nation protects its most vulnerable wildlife, raising alarms among ...

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 ...

Critics of proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act say the move could affect efforts to save species facing extinction Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

With its rolling hills, woodland and low-lying fields, it can be hard to picture anything apart from cows, sheep and foxes roaming around the landscapes of the United Kingdom. However, thousands of ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species, that evolution also involved a return trip.