Modern genetic research is “pushing the boundaries of what’s possible” by bringing extinct animals back to life, but could it ...

Two Guam kingfisher chicks that hatched at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh are part of a program to help restore the bird ...

One of the most endangered sea creatures of the Pacific Ocean is getting a leg up in the kelp forests of Washington’s San ...

Some harlequin frogs have lost their poison—and their ability to defend themselves. Scientists are on the case.

Why is there an alligator lying completely frozen under the ice… and still alive? At first glance, it looks like something ...

California ranchers sick of watching blood-thirsty wolves ravage their herds are demanding the right to blast the predators with pepper balls as Republican lawmakers are fighting what they call ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Alaska are changing how scientists view mammal life and migration in the ancient Arctic.

Five generations of the Erickson family tended this land that borders I-5. Now it could help reconnect mountain ranges.

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived ...

The skeleton was surrounded by a dark smudge that appeared to be the remnants of a fuzzy body. It was small enough to pop in ...

Alpine, a rehabilitated Florida manatee, is swimming freely in Florida’s Crystal River today. Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens announced the release of the first manatee from the zoo’s new J.

An ancient human ancestor called Homo floresiensis was likely a scavenger who subsisted on the scraps left behind by the ...