This discovery is the first of its kind, with a perfectly preserved 3-month horse of a now-extinct species in the Siberian ...

“Scientists estimate that we’ve identified only one-tenth of all species on Earth,” said Dr. Shannon Bennett, chief of science at the California Academy of Sciences, in a statement.

We, quite rightly, worry about how the activities of humans are leading to the extinction of animal species alive today. However, extinction is not a modern phenomenon. All through geologic time ...

These geckos are all related, but they don't have identical habitats and habits. These days you can find day geckos in the wild, within human communities, and — for certain species — in captivity.

The seven new species are all closely related to another species, Boophis marojezensis, that researchers have known about since the mid-1990s. But when they looked at genetic information of these ...

The shrubs probably responded first. In the 19 th century, alder and flowering willows in the Alaskan Arctic stood no taller than a small child—just a little over three feet. But as temperatures ...

So new species are being discovered all the time - and often by citizen scientists, not academics. From member station KUNC in Colorado, Rae Solomon reports. (SOUNDBITE OF FOOTFALL ON TRAIL ...

Each year, researchers discover dozens of animal species to add to the millions on our planet. One group, in particular, contains an exceedingly large chunk of Earth's biodiversity. So, of all the ...

Some of the best known species on Earth may not be what they seem. Credit...Steve Holroyd/Alamy Supported by By Carl Zimmer Naturalists have been trying for centuries to catalog all of the species ...

Nearly one third of all known vertebrate species are either used or traded by humans around the world. “We’ve become this kind of super-predator,” says Rob Cooke at the UK Centre for Ecology ...

Today, seven distinct species exist, according to seeturtles.org. Six of them splash around U.S. waters, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports. Nearly all species of the ...