The pygmy right whale, a mysterious and elusive creature that rarely comes to shore, is the last living relative of an ancient group of whales long believed to be extinct, a new study suggests. The ...

The Wollemi pine was thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago until it was rediscovered by a group of hikers in 1994. Now, scientists have decoded its genome to understand how it's survived — ...

A legendary Greek plant, "Silphium," once popularly known as the "miracle" plant in the ancient Greek empire, has apparently made a comeback. The plant was consumed by Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians at ...