The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

Each year, animals and plants are being lost to extinction. In fact, more than 160 species disappeared in the past decade ...

Extinction has always been final — until now. Advances in genome sequencing, cloning, and genetic engineering have given scientists a real pathway to bring extinct animals back to life. This process, ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

Across the globe, a small number of animal species are now so rare that only a few individuals remain in the wild. Habitat ...

Everyday, animals go extinct before our very eyes. Here are some species which are currently endangered and how you can help.

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

A shy, ferret-sized predator called the coastal marten has been quietly hanging on in the forests of southern Oregon and northern California.

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Giant kangaroos that lived during the Ice Age may not have been as slow and grounded as once believed. A new study finds ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia’s extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...