True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time ...

On one of the final days of 1938, a fishing trawler off the coast of South Africa reeled in a massive creature unlike anything the crew had seen before. It was nearly five feet in length, and its fins ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Two researchers with the University of Memphis announced Monday that they have rediscovered an insect believed to have gone extinct, and last seen before the turn of the millennium.

Octopuses 'Kraken' octopus that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was a 62-foot-long apex predator of the ocean Birds 'Their greatest challenge since they stared down the asteroid': Paleontologist ...