Deep inside the world’s longest cave system, scientists have uncovered two terrifying extinct predators that once prowled a ...

On a fenced U.S. preserve, a pair of heavy‑boned canids now stalk and play that, until recently, existed only in tar pits and textbooks. Colossal Biosciences says these living pups carry the signature ...

Researchers found that as many as 80% of island snail species have gone extinct.

Back in early 2023, the dodo's genome was sequenced from a DNA sample. Now the company trying to resurrect the long-extinct ...

The coastal marten is about the size of a ferret and lives in heavily wooded forests.

A button-sized snail once feared extinct in its Bermudian home is thriving again after conservationists bred and released ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact ...

Reducing wolves to protect endangered caribou doesn't always deliver the expected results, and the shape of the land may be ...

Three experts assess the mindset and morality of lethal control​ and human responsibilities toward nonhuman animals​, and in doing so, they expose the "con" in conservation.

The Western spadefoot needs complex habitats of streams or pools connected to grasslands. Those are disappearing, which is ...