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The large tortoiseshell – an elusive and enigmatic butterfly that became extinct in Britain in the last century – is a UK resident species once again,…

February 27, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm180 years after disappearing, a tortoise returns to its Galápagos homeThe release of 158 specially bred Floreana…

Researchers have shed light on the final centuries of the woolly rhinoceros after studying a hairy lump of meat from the stomach of an ancient wolf…

January 14, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmScientists Find Extinct Rhino DNA in Wolf Pup Mummy’s StomachScientists have sequenced the genome of the long-extinct…

The Atlanta Hawks salary dumped Trae Young to the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night. It will be headlined as a trade, but Atlanta doesn’t care too much…

Death and taxes are supposed to be the things we can depend on in this life. But in 2025, the American entrepreneur Ben Lamm sold much…

Two of the most important coral species that made up Florida’s reef are now functionally extinct after a withering ocean heatwave caused catastrophic losses, scientists have…

Elkhorn coral off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. Credit: Sam Hodge/AlamyTwo years after a record-setting heatwave, scientists have confirmed that two iconic corals that have…

It’s official: the only Australian shrew is no more.The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the world’s most comprehensive…