Being listed as endangered or threatened does not mean a species is beyond saving. Across the United States, conservation ...

Extinction is supposed to be final, yet the natural world keeps producing plot twists. Around the globe, animals written off ...

Colossal Biosciences aims to freeze millions of animal samples in the hope of saving endangered species, or one day resurrecting them.

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

The company that brought back the dire wolf is launching a new biovault to store the genomes of the most at-risk species.

Just when you think you have a good idea of the mammals that live in North America, another one appears and forces you to ...

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.

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...

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

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

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

Scientists from Oregon State University looked at coastal martens in the town of Klamath for three months ...