The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

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Dive into the fascinating history of 20 extinct dog breeds that once roamed the earth. From the Cuban breed used to guard and catch runaway slaves to the fierce dogs that took on bears and fought to ...

‘Since everything is bigger in Texas, this is perhaps not surprising.’ By Margherita Bassi Published Jun 26, 2025 1:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today issued a report identifying 10 endangered animals at risk from the Trump administration’s proposal to strip nearly all habitat protections from ...

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA within. The scientists then plucked nuclei from these gene-edited ...