Genetic tests have confirmed that a giant tortoise found ... extinct more than 100 years ago!" Environment Minister Gustavo Manrique tweeted of the Fernandina giant tortoise. "Hope is alive ...

Animals believed extinct that were found alive even have a name. They are called “Lazarus Animals” after the biblical Lazarus who rose from the dead. Here are 10 Lazarus animals that are alive ...

Megalodon is definitely extinct ... sea, evading detection. Another misconception is that the shark lived at the same time as T. rex, though a gap of 43 million years separates the two species.

Known previously only through fossilized remnants, the animal is one of two species ... stated in a press release. The post “Extinct” Marsupial Found Alive in Australia After More Than a ...

The Wellington Caves in New South Wales are the only ones in which fossil remains have been found. The town of Wellington ... and nearly 1,000 feet above sea level, on the western margin of ...

Our research, recently published in the journal Nature Communications, identifies and describes the fossils of a 380-million-year-old extinct ... this species, found along the east coast of ...

A whole skeleton of a Steller’s sea cow, an extinct sirenian, which died out in the 18th century, was found at the Komandorsky ... who discovered and described the species in 1741.

They were the first, large extinct reptiles ... fossils were found in England during the early 19th century, but it was not until 1821 that the first ichthyosaur species was described - called ...

The purpose: to capture for posterity species that someday might be extinct. To reflect the project ... A few years ago there was one left alive, a male, at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

When there are no individuals of a species left alive ... and nesting pairs can be found in many towns and cities, including Manchester, Derby, Coventry and Norwich. Sea otters dive down to ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the ocean, climate change, and the future of our planet. Using mathematical models, researchers have been able to identify ...