Tiktaalik, part fish, part four-legged animal, is believed to be the first creature to develop characteristics that would help animals move out of the water and on to land. It had gills ...

But many brave creatures bounced back from the brink of extinction due to well-coordinated conservation efforts Unique blue iguana faced near extinction by 2002. But in 2018, they were rebounded ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

A growing group of scientists is trying to bring back extinct animals, an idea that is drawing closer than ever because of recent advances in gene editing. Shapiro, one of the world’s leading ...