The Guam kingfisher was extinct in the wild. Through coordinated breeding, cultural consultation, and careful reintroduction ...

Once-threatened koala populations in parts of Australia are showing surprising signs of genomic recovery, according to a ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

According to the team, the discovery will help develop banana varieties that are more resistant to Fusarium wilt. While the ...

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as the ethical questions are thorny.

As more species disappear from the planet, it is a stark reminder that conservation efforts are not doing enough. A new study ...

A new study published in Science is challenging long-held assumptions about how we measure genetic risk in endangered species. Researchers analyzed whole genomes from hundreds of koalas, finding that ...

Nearly one in three freshwater fish species now faces possible extinction, a statistic that reflects mounting pressure on ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

University of Queensland researchers say Australia's reptiles are at risk of extinction because a little understood fungus is ...