The list of animals pushed into extinction has grown even longer. In its latest update, the International Union for ...

Once common across Europe, North Africa and West Asia, the slender-billed curlew has not been officially sighted since 1995, ...

Palorchestes azael was an unusual marsupial herbivore. It had retracted nasal bones on the skull, which means it could have had a small trunk like that of tapirs. Carli Peters of the Universidade do ...

A new marsupial species closely related to the kangaroo was discovered in Australia, but it might already have gone extinct. Scientists, including those from the Curtin University, found the new ...

These baby numbats are among a group of seven to have been spotted across two different wildlife sanctuaries in New South ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, ...

It's official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of ...

As nighttime settled across a national park in Australia, an “extremely rare” mammal with “long” feet bounded into a forest clearing and circled around a bush. Unbeknownst to it, a nearby trail camera ...

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