A US-based biotech company has successfully sequenced the genetic codes of preserved plants, some of which date back more ...

In a scientific first, a team led by researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of Copenhagen has ...

A rare grasshopper once believed to be extinct has been spotted for the first time since 1980—but habitat loss may threaten ...

The Colossal Foundation has developed an AI algorithm that can detect the critically endangered tooth-billed pigeon's calls, ...

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that ...

At one point in the history of the U.S. one bird so dominated the skies that its flocks numbered in the tens of millions, but ...

A new study, led by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, and ...

Listen to the final song of the last male Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird, recorded just before the species disappeared forever.

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

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being ...