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Ever wondered if those creatures of science fiction ever existed? Some of them actually did and today we're looking at five of them that we're glad went extinct!

A little over a century ago, we were a mere 300 miles away from being completely annihilated by a pack of apocalypse-inducing comets.

Researchers have announced the first photographs ever captured of the rare Borneo Rainbow Toad -- after the species hadn't been seen for 87 years.

You probably didn't know that Tasmanian Devils are at risk for becoming extinct. Now, researchers are attempting to use new research in DNA sequencing as a last-ditch effort to save the species.

Robert Krulwich can't believe Kevin Kelly is correct about technologies never disappearing. But even if it's true, are past results a guarantee of future progress?

When you’re the last female of your kind and you have three willing males ready to inseminate you with their love seed, isn’t it your obligation to lay at least one of them? Not according to the last female Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle. She’s a stubborn little lard whose vagina is so full of sand, she’d rather face extinction than ...