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

The saola is a real and documented animal, but it remains a mystery to most experts and researchers. A forest-dwelling bovid ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

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

How cool would it be to see a real life T-Rex? If only that one fatal asteroid never hit Earth.

A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to extinction since 2016. Those that have joined the International Union for the ...

Andean condors are the biggest raptors in the world — and are vital to their ecosystem ...

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

Sometimes an animal long thought to be extinct reappears decades or centuries later, shocking scientists! Join Hank Green for a look at seven species that we thought were gone forever... but are back ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...

Deep in the Ecuadorian Andes, the Yanacocha Reserve is the last refuge for a tiny hummingbird teetering on the edge of extinction.