How scientists (and the rest of us) are finding 16,000 new species a month.

A search for a fish lost to extinction led to a brand-new species hiding in a South African river.

A research team traveled to South Africa’s Umzimkhulu River in 2017 with a specific mission: find surviving pockets of the Maluti redfin minnow, a species declared extinct after introduced trout ...

Researchers identified a new freshwater fish species in South Africa after years of genetic testing and analysis.

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...