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Giant rat species rediscovered alive after 30 years

A giant rat species, long considered lost to science, has been rediscovered alive in the remote Papua mountains after a ...

New Zealand Rare Birds Thought to Be Extinct Have Seemingly Come Back from the Dead amid AI-Assisted Preservation Efforts

In New Zealand, conservationists are looking at new ways to protect the country's native bird species, some of which were ...
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Scientists plan resurrection of Tasmanian tiger, animal that's been extinct since 1936

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, ...

Endangered primates, 1 alive and 1 dead, found in checked bag at airport in India

One of the tiny animals was dead, while the other was seen cradled in the arms of an officer, softly hooting before covering ...
Hawk Central

These species are now extinct, a 'tragic and sobering moment'

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

The rediscovery loophole putting 'extinct' zombie species in a legal limbo

Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are ...

Wildlife recovery means more than just survival of a species

Current laws that deem species safe from extinction ignore their ecological role, geographic range and genetic diversity, as ...

2 Silvery Gibbons, One Dead, One Alive, Seized At Mumbai Airport

Mumbai Customs seized two endangered silvery gibbons, one of which had died, at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International ...