We humans like to think we’re special in basically all ways, but if the history of life is any indication, our species has a ...

AI superintelligence could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons, but importantly, nobody has built it yet. We can still ...

YANACOCHA RESERVE, Ecuador (AP) — Deep in the Ecuadorian Andes, an ancient forest stands as a final sanctuary against the ...

As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...

Three Andean condors have been released into the Patagonia National Park in Chile to help protect the species, which is vital ...

Oregon State University researchers have painted a clearer picture of the coastal marten, a secretive, ferret-sized forest ...

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

A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to ...

An unusual DNA source shows woolly rhinos did not slowly decline genetically, pointing instead to rapid climate warming.

A new study challenges a decades-old assumption about the loss of Hawaiʻi’s native waterbirds. Challenging a half-century-old ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...