What it eats: A variety of fish and cephalopods, including squid and cuttlefish. Head of a preserved Coelacanth specimen. Why it's awesome: Scientists thought all coelacanths went extinct over 65 ...

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.

Lazarus species are animals thought to be extinct that are subsequently rediscovered. Although often considered a reprieve by Mother Nature from the dark realities of conservation, the limelight that ...

A captive New Guinea singing dog, mid-song. Image: @R.G. Daniel/CC by 2.0 (Fair Use) The singing dog of New Guinea, also known as the highland dog, was thought to be extinct in the wild for some 50 ...

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The desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), a small, hopping marsupial believed to be extinct since 1994, may still be ...

Depending on whom you ask, the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, has either been extinct for nearly a century or has been just really good at hiding. Now new research examining hundreds of reports from ...