These animals are extinct, but scientists are trying to bring some back It’s estimated that more than 99% of all the animal ...

Many of the planet’s most consequential ecological changes don’t come with viral footage or easy villains. They unfold ...

After flowering plants, the world became like an English garden, full of bright color and variety, visited by butterflies and ... of fossilized flowers in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North ...

Rare fossilized butterfly identified as new extinct species Tacola kamitanii. (photo credit: Paleontological Research (2025). DOI: 10.2517/prpsj.240023) A rare butterfly fossil discovered decades ...

More information: Megafauna mobility: Assessing the foraging range of an extinct macropodid from central eastern Queensland, Australia, PLOS One (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0319712 .

One key result of our study is that Protodemnon was locally extinct at Mt Etna long before humans turned up, which rules out human influence. The techniques used in this study will help us to learn ...

Some doubted the species ever existed at all. But the Endangered Wildlife Trust says two of its researchers have found and ...

Researchers highlight biases in insect conservation, focusing mainly on bees and butterflies. A multi-faceted approach is crucial for insect conservation. Over-focusing on specific insects may ...

In large mammalian herbivores, bigger body size is often correlated with a wider home range, but whether this is true for extinct Australian megaherbivores is unclear. In this study, Laurikainen ...

But whether that was true for extinct Australian megaherbivores is unclear. For the new study, published in the journal PLOS One, Gaete and his colleagues used fossil data to predict the home ...

The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member of Haidomyrmecinae -- an extinct subfamily that only lived during the Cretaceous period. These ants had highly specialized, scythe-like ...