How scientists, conservationists and the fragrance industry are working to revive extinct scents and perpetuate threatened ...

Fowler doesn’t waste time stopping for meals on his cactus expeditions. As dawn broke, a Grateful Dead album played quietly in the background and the men gossiped about fellow succulent lovers who’d ...

There are only about 1,300 genera of living mammals worldwide. Discovering a totally new genus of mammal happens only a few times a year.

Kakapos, which are reclusive and flightless and can live as long as humans, are found only in New Zealand. They feed on the fruit of the rimu tree.

The Guam kingfisher was extinct in the wild. Through coordinated breeding, cultural consultation, and careful reintroduction ...

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect the Barren Valley collomia under the Endangered Species Act.

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as ...

A landmark finding that suggests koala genetic diversity not the only deciding factor in successful regrowth of populations. Study in Science from Cesar Australia and the University of Sydney shows ...

A new study reveals that for conservation efforts to be effective, all threats to wildlife must be considered together, not ...

Currently, there are more than 157,100 species listed on the IUCN Red List, with more than 44,000 species threatened with extinction, including 41% of amphibians, 36% of reef building corals, 34% of ...

Scientists estimate we’ve identified somewhere around one-tenth of all species on Earth — meaning for every species with a name, roughly nine more are waiting in an unsampled river or an unexplored ...