The extinction of the thylacine stings a little more acutely than the loss of other species. Unlike other extinction icons like the dodo bird, this striped predator lived into the 20th century (we ...

In 1981, a ranch dog dragged home a mysterious dead animal, setting off a chain of events that would determine whether an ...

By Will Dunham Oct 14 (Reuters) - A US biotech company says it is making progress toward its goal of resurrecting the dodo, ...

Millions of years ago, the planet was home to terrifying predators that make many of today's dangerous animals look harmless.

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Why large numbers of reptile species face extinction and what that means for our ecosystem. Globally, about 20 percent of reptile species are facing the threat of extinction. That ...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held oral arguments Tuesday in a case that could slash environmental protections for gray ...

A rescued Florida panther, one of fewer than 300 of the endangered big cats alive today, is released into the wild. Mark ...

Conservationists often raise the young of endangered species in captivity before releasing them into suitable habitats as adults. The benefits are obvious: survival to adulthood is typically high, as ...

In 2014, members of a local museum found fragments of an ancient fossil dating to the end of the Pliocene or early ...

Researchers say, for the first time, there's evidence that predator training of pregnant endangered mammals can influence the animals' offspring Alamy; Getty Researchers discovered that exposing a ...