It’s entirely possible that this  will be one of the more pivotal St Patrick’s Day missions in recent years, if ever ...

The Chel snakehead, also known as the Channa amphibeus, hadn’t had a recorded sighting since the last of the specimens was ...

After over a century of being considered regionally extinct, this ecological “unicorn” was spotted alive and well in the ...

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the ...

An apex carnivore was 'king of the ancient Egyptian forest' then mysteriously went extinct.

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.

It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

The skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

Researchers have rediscovered a rare fish species presumed to be extinct after it was not seen for more than eight decades.

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

More than a century has passed since the last sighting of a South American tapir, a species previously believed to be extinct, until a recent, surprise sighting was reported in Brazil. Hidden ...

Are humans the only species to drive another to extinction? Tom Ruppel | Dixon, California Human activities are the most prominent cause of species extinction today, but not the only one.