For the last 10,000 years, thousands of species have perished from the Holocene extinction event, which is still ongoing. Unfortunately, due to human activity, around 150-200 species become extinct ...

On one of the final days of 1938, a fishing trawler off the coast of South Africa reeled in a massive creature unlike anything the crew had seen before. It was nearly five feet in length, and its fins ...

The night parrot is a beautiful green and yellow bird native to Australia. These birds are nocturnal, nesting on the ground and favoring desert environments. The night parrot is extremely lightweight ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...