The Oakland Zoo, in a collaborative effort with the Mountain Lakes Research Group, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and ...

Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based company, is using gene-editing technology to bring back extinct species and help save ...

Extinction is an overwhelming concept, difficult to grasp in its enormity and finality. Thousands of species are barreling ...

Earth's biodiversity is in crisis. An imminent "sixth mass extinction" threatens beloved and important wildlife. It also threatens to reduce the amount of genetic diversity—or variation—within species ...

In the vast, arid landscapes of South Australia's northeast, on the lands of the Adnyamathanha and Wilyakali, a surprising ...

Bulborox, small-bulb orchid, dwarf date palm, chaulmoogra, and bashpata are all targeted for recovery in this project. The ...

A new study shows night lizards lived around the Gulf of Mexico before and after the asteroid impact that ended the dinosaurs ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs, along ...

Congress is working on a proposal that would gut the Marine Mammal Protection Act and erase legal protections for dolphins, ...

An international team of paleontologists has spent more than 15 years excavating and studying fossils from Africa to expand ...

Rainy, damp weather along the eastern United States in summer 2025 has one upside: Fireflies love it.

Transforming crop and timber production to a sustainable model could reduce the extinction of species by mitigating one of the great drivers of terrestrial wildlife decline, according to a new ...