So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

Two dozen animal and plant species are in need of specialist support to prevent them from being wiped out in Lancashire.

The idea of resurrecting long-lost direwolves sounds like pure fantasy, yet Colossal Biosciences insists science is catching up with myth. Chief science officer Beth Shapiro lays out a vision that ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing added protections for seven species of pangolin under the Endangered Species ...

New fossil evidence shows that South America’s extinct mastodons were vital seed dispersers, and their loss still haunts ...

Two dozen animal and plant species are in need of specialist support to prevent them from being wiped ... The 24 animals and plants 'at risk of extinction' in Lancashire - unless something is done ...

Cryopreserving plants, animals to support endangered species around the globe The CryoBioBank at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden stores nearly 300 species of plants and about 90 species of ...

In fact, Nowak argues that the impact was so minimal that – for plants, at least – there simply was no mass extinction then. This conclusion is controversial.

Listing pangolins under the Endangered Species Act is unlikely to slow the animals’ population decline, some experts say.

When so many wildlife conservationists are trying to save plants and animals from disappearing, the mosquito is one of the few creatures that people argue is actually worthy of extinction.