The de-extinct or resurrected species would require extensive monitoring to determine their population status and impact upon ecosystems and the protections, safeguards, and possible habitat ...

While the biological and philosophical debates are interesting, the legal ramifications for endangered species conservation are of paramount importance. As a legal scholar with a Ph.D. in wildlife ...

FARGO — The Red River Zoo has welcomed two rare additions — a pair of Przewalski’s horses, once extinct in the wild ... are the last living wild horse species,” Mulvena said, adding ...

The dire wolf, a large, wolflike species that went extinct about 12,000 years ago, has been in the news after biotech company Colossal claimed to have resurrected it using cloning and gene-editing ...

Officials in Colorado are sounding the alarm over the presence of an aggressive invasive species that poses a serious threat to local wildlife. According to a press release from Colorado Parks and ...

A photo shows the new species’ “dense, soft and relatively long” hair. Overall, the mouse-eared bat’s fur is “dark brown” with some lighter hues mixed in and a paler golden-brown belly.

Although such species made up only 12.5% of the total recorded, they accounted for a whopping 65% of all old trees in Buddhist temples. Ginkgo tree growing next to a building with traditional ...

With over 20,000 species described around the world, that number has now increased by one with the discovery of a new species of Nearctic mining bee. Most mining bees, like this bearded miner bee, ...

A study published June 3 in Frontiers in Mammal Science describes the first successful use of this type of technique to characterize the bones of extinct species of Australian marsupial megafauna ...

Brandie Smith, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, spoke briefly with Mr. Trump about all this and said that he was “very interested in the leopards as a species.” Most of all ...

These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species. Credit: Diego Barletta, edited Digging Their Own Dens. Larger sloths weren’t restricted to ...

They were also able to distinguish Zygomaturus and Palorchestes from other living and extinct large marsupials, but they couldn't differentiate the two species from each other. This is not unusual ...