Long before Las Vegas’ Fremont Street was a gambling hub festooned with neon lights, Oreocarya insolita, a shin-high ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals ...

The Trump Administration is rolling out changes to the Endangered Species Act that critics argue will make the law borderline ...

Hundreds of imperiled species, including North Atlantic right whales and rusty patched bumble bees, could face greater threats from industry and development.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held oral arguments Tuesday in a case that could slash environmental protections for gray ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A Trump administration-driven rule change to the Endangered Species Act ...

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal Biosciences, the Dallas-based biotech company leading the charge, has made ...

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 ...

For more than 20 years, Canada’s Species at Risk Act (SARA) has protected wildlife that are at risk of being lost from ...

In the world of biology, being declared extinct is usually a permanent sentence, but nature occasionally loves to prove us wrong. These incredible animals, often referred to as “Lazarus species,” ...

Would you like to see a real, live wooly mammoth? Or how about a Tasmanian tiger in the flesh? Scientists have already finagled a few ways to resurrect extinct species from their evolutionary graves.

The specimen was long mislabeled, according to a new study. Paleontologists identified it as a previously undescribed genus ...