Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...

The dodo's closest living relative, the Samoan manumea, was spotted alive in the wild, after being missing for years.

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

Conservationists are racing to save the manumea, a chicken-sized bird that lives only on two Samoan islands, from extinction ...

The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed ...

After years of silence, Samoa’s elusive manumea has been sighted again in remote forests, offering fragile hope for the ...

Scientists have confirmed sightings of the elusive manumea, a bird closely related to the extinct dodo, offering new hope for ...

The Christmas Island shrew is thought to be at least the third mammal species to go extinct on the island as a direct result ...

As a critically endangered species, the manumea could be considered mostly dead, but there’s a big difference between that ...

Every new extinction ripples out beyond the affected species, from ecosystems to human knowledge across culture, spirituality ...

A manumea, the closest living relative of the extinct dodo bird, has been sighted for the first time since 2013, raising hope ...

According to the Samoa Conservation Society, the last confirmed manumea sighting before this series was in August 2020.