As per a team of international scientists, they have identified a pair of extinct Ice Age lions that are among the best preserved specimens ever found. The scientists believe that the cave lion cubs, named Boris and Sparta, briefly roamed the steppe of what is now eastern Russia.

Scientists unveil extinct Ice Age lion cubs

A mouse, whose species was believed to have been extinct more than 150 years ago, has been rediscovered in islands off Western Australia. Researchers compared DNA samples of eight different species of native rodents and 42 of living rodents to observe the decline of native mice in the past 80-100 years.

Species of 'extinct' mouse rediscovered after 150 years in Australia

For the first time ever, a small colony of rare orchids has been discovered growing on the rooftop of an office building in the UK’s capital city, London. Serapias parviflora is a rare small flower that is usually found in the Mediterranean basin, but the office building of Nomura International has nearly 15 plants growing on the 11th floor.

Almost extinct orchid found growing on London office's rooftop

A species of turtle that was thought to be extinct has been re-discovered on the Galapagos island of Fernandina. The species was believed to have gone extinct nearly a century ago.

Galapagos tortoise, thought to be extinct a century ago, found in Ecuador

A new extinct crocodile species dating back to millions of years ago has been discovered in the sparesely-populated Australian Outback. A team from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (NT) on Monday announced that they have identified the new species belonging to the Baru genus but have not yet named it, reports Xinhua news agency.

New extinct crocodile species found in Australia

Amid busy construction crews racing to build an airport in Mexico, scientists are unearthing more and more mammoth skeletons in what has quickly become one of the world's biggest concentrations of the now-extinct relative of modern elephants.

Mexican airport site emerges as major graveyard of Ice Age mammoths

For half a century scientists feared that the Somali elephant shrew had vanished from the face of the Earth. No one had seen so much as a whisker. But the tiny mammal with its probing trunk-like nose was quietly thriving in the arid, rocky landscape of the Horn of Africa, researchers said Tuesday.

Long 'lost' elephant shrew found in Horn of Africa

Wildlife experts have warned that giraffes are now extinct in at least seven countries. According to a report, there are only 100,000 of these beautiful creatures left on the African continent.

Giraffes extinct in at least 7 African countries, listed as 'vulnerable' 

Unbridled consumption has decimated global wildlife, triggered a mass extinction and exhausted Earth's capacity to accommodate humanity's expanding appetites, the conservation group WWF warned Tuesday.

In 44 years, humans have wiped out 60% of the world's animal population: WWF

The decline in number comes as the number of Irrawaddy dolphin's halved in the last 60 years. The finless porpoise has also halved in the last 45 years, the group declared

Asian dolphins close to extinction: Report

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