Eastern barred bandicoots have returned to mainland Australia after being locally extinct for decades.

Eastern barred bandicoots were once considered extinct on mainland Australia, but conservationists are determined to give ...

A strange fossil skull found in a cave in western Australia has helped scientists identify a completely unknown koala species ...

Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia’s Boodjamulla National Park. The ground-dwelling species — Menura tyawanoides — is an ancient ancestor of ...

Last week, The Guardian dropped the news that this common, bright blue and black garden-dweller could be extinct within the next 30–40 years thanks to climate damage. It is quite frankly terrifying ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia’s extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the world, from platypus to koalas and wombats. Tragically, Australia is the ...

Discover 15 amazing animals that were thought to be extinct but were found alive. These are nature's greatest comebacks.

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

The eastern barred bandicoot was declared extinct in Australia in 1991, but following a world-first genetic rescue program, ...