Finding a supposedly extinct species may seem like a happy ... Knapp says, but it may still be difficult to ID the tree on that basis. Because oaks tend to hybridize, some researchers have maintained ...

But, taking seriously what Lio people say, I’ve found no good reason to think so. What they say about the creatures, supplemented by other sorts of evidence, is fully consistent with a surviving ...

While many of Earth’s earliest life forms have long since gone extinct ... animals that live on: And, here are the animals that get my vote for “most prehistoric-looking.” They may not ...

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.

The species, Tachygyia microlepis, is listed as extinct in ... the giant skink may still be living in remote areas of Southern Tonga. “We believe T. microlepis is still alive in southern Tonga ...

A species may also become extinct through speciation. The fossil record shows that many species have become extinct since life on Earth began. Extinction is still happening and often, it is due to ...

The ivory-billed woodpecker recently went from near total obscurity to superstardom when birders reported a sighting of the believed-to-be-extinct species. The world's third largest woodpecker was ...