Across the globe, a small number of animal species are now so rare that only a few individuals remain in the wild. Habitat ...

Thousands of species on this planet go extinct every year and although extinction is completely natural, today's extinction rate is many times higher than historical extinction rates. The increase ...

The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, officially went extinct in 1936. The last confirmed individual died in captivity after being locked outside during a cold night. But that date marks ...

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 ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

During the Early-Middle Devonian period, a large landmass called Gondwana—which included parts of today's Africa, South America, and Antarctica—was located near the South Pole. Unlike today's icy ...

This year, at least six animal and insect species moved to the Extinct category of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...