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

Before the Spanish introduced modern horses to the New World, horses roamed wild in North America, then they disappeared, but ...

Guiseppi, who will turn 28 this summer, lives at the zoo's Family Farm. As a zoo ambassador, he's a regular in education programs.

Midway University, founded in 1847, stands as one of Kentucky’s educational pioneers. The historic campus buildings, set against rolling Kentucky landscapes, create a picture-perfect academic setting ...

Midway University, founded in 1847 as the Kentucky Female Orphan School, stands as one of the state’s educational pioneers. The historic campus buildings, set against rolling Kentucky landscapes, ...

but some researchers question whether species should be named after people at all. A tiny snail was named Anauchen picasso, after the blocky whorls on the shell reminded researchers ...

To create a comprehensive inventory of all the species living in this region, the researchers sifted through more than 100,000 biological records from research expeditions, with some reports datin ...

Some of the discovered genes were associated with DNA repair, the detoxification of harmful molecules and improved metabolism, all of which increased the species' survivability. Scientists said ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

But that’s exactly what the Trump administration is proposing to do by changing how one word in the Endangered Species Act is interpreted: harm. For 50 years, the U.S. government has interpreted ...

It’s so important, in fact, that the trait has evolved 27 times among ray-finned fishes, a huge group that makes up half of all vertebrate species alive today. At least 1,500 species of fish are ...