A proposal intended to expedite land use and development permitting would restrict the types of evidence state agencies could ...

This list covers the most vulnerable wildlife species and the steps you can take to help each of them survive and thrive.

There are many cute endangered species, and sadly their charm endangers them even more, like these 25 cutest animals that are ...

Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores – but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures? In ...

Citizen science platforms, including iNaturalist, are leading to major new discoveries and are becoming crucial to the work ...

The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of ...

No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...

The "de-extinction" company Colossal Biosciences promises to fulfill that dream, at least for extinct animals like woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), dodos (Raphus cucullatus), and Tasmanian ...

More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out ...

The dodo bird vanished more than 300 years ago, but its story still sparks curiosity. Native to just one island and wiped out in just a few decades, the dodo has become a symbol of extinction and ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...