After nearly 60 years without a confirmed sighting, researchers have rediscovered a plant they believed was extinct. The ...

A recently rediscovered trove of vintage photographs by Graciela Iturbide is currently on view at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York. Graciela Iturbide, Autorretrato como Seri, Desierto de Sonora (Self ...

An illustration of Procoptodon goliah, a giant kangaroo that weighed up to about 550 pounds and went extinct around 40,000 years ago Nobu Tamura via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-3.0 For many people, ...

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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 ...

A plant long presumed extinct in the wild has been rediscovered in Australia, ending nearly six decades without a confirmed sighting. Researchers say the small, slender shrub—Ptilotus senarius—has not ...

Researchers rediscovered the greater chestnut weevil, a beetle species thought to be extinct. The beetle was found with the help of a citizen science app called iNaturalist. Researchers are now ...

An enormous vintage baseball card collection featuring dozens of baseball legends and Hall of Famers is going up for sale after being rediscovered by a Northern California resident. The collection ...

This year, at least six animal and insect species moved to the Extinct category of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

This handout picture taken with a camera trap and released on December 26, 2025 by Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) and Panthera Thailand shows a recently ...