Each year on March 3, World Wildlife Day draws global attention to the plants and animals that make life on Earth possible.
Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are nowhere to be found. From human activity to climate change, new animals ...
A dozen fish pulled from a South African river sparked years of debate before being confirmed as a new species.
Korinna Domingo founded the nonprofit Cougar Conservancy in 2020 when one of the big cats was legally killed in Ventura ...
Republican bills that would allow the endangered Mexican gray wolf to be killed and no longer be considered an endangered ...
Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.
Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...
In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago ...
A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...