Genetic diversity matters for wildlife – and for the livestock on which we depend. Yet breed after breed is disappearing into extinction.

Marine biologist Fernando Trujillo has spent a lifetime working with the endangered creatures, which offer a window into the ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Two rare animals in Florida died within days of each other from vehicle collisions in nearly back-to-back blows for the ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

A genetic study of Asian elephants in northern Cambodia reveals a larger and more robust population than previously thought, ...

Archeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest human face in Western Europe. Dated at between 1.1 and 1.4 million ...

A 70-million-year-old titanosaur skeleton was discovered in France by amateur paleontologist Damien Boschetto. The nearly ...

Three of the critically endangered species, including the Syr Darya, are feared extinct as well. Ecologically, sturgeons are on the brink. Economically, they are some of the most valuable animals ...

A grizzly old time is being had at the Ohio zoo as staff tend to a newborn sloth bear and drum up help for what to name her.

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...