It had been out of sight for 6 decades. Researchers baffled after unusual species thought to be extinct reappears: ...

A Sierra Nevada red fox captured and collared for the first time in the southern Sierra may prove to be the key to saving the ...

In 1978, residents in the small community of Winameg in rural northwest Ohio discovered several bones of a mammal dating back to the Ice Age: a mastodon. Bowling Green State University studied the ...

Smithsonian researcher Brian Gratwicke and colleagues describe how acoustic technology aided the remarkable rediscovery of four amphibian populations thought to have vanished from Panama’s mountain ...

Nearly half a century after it slipped into botanical silence, a ghost flower of Sri Lanka’s misty highlands has ...

A previously lost wildflower has reappeared, offering a dose of hope for nature lovers. In January, Australian researchers announced that Ptilotus senarius, a small purple-pink shrub, was rediscovered ...

A plant thought to be extinct has been rediscovered in northern Queensland after 58 years, with the help of a community-driven species identification smartphone app. Ptilotus senarius, which belongs ...

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago ...

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An extinct snail found in a Bermuda alleyway led to biologists breeding 100,000 and releasing them back into the wild—and they're thriving.

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