Two tiny marsupials once written off as extinct for around 6,000 or even 7,000 years have been found alive in dense ...

In the heart of Australia’s rainforests, there is a newly discovered species of tree that has gained the attention of ...

With fewer than 10 left, the vaquita faces new dangers as proposed changes could allow more fishing in its last safe habitat.

At a UN wildlife conference in Brazil, governments agreed to extend protections to 40 additional migratory species, including ...

"Referred to locally as Tous by some Tambrauw and Maybrat clans, the glider is a sacred animal. Considered a manifestation of ...

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our ...

The latest clues hint at where pterosaurs — the first vertebrates to fly — came from, how they evolved, what they ate and more.

State Sen. Bob Singer, a veteran Republican, and Assemblymember Anthony Angelozzi, a freshman Democrat, recently introduced ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

Genome analysis reveals that Neanderthals lived on the brink of extinction for 350,000 years in small populations.

Two researchers snorkeling in a subterranean stream in Texas discovered fossils from the Late Pleistocene epoch, revealing ...

A new study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...