When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

New research suggests that they smashed animal bones into tiny pieces before boiling them to extract the high-calorie grease ...

To that end, the aquarium on Thursday released an inaugural Marine Species Report Card, a collaborative effort that assesses the population status of 30 species found on the California coast.. The ...

The Endangered Species Act always had a hole in it. It was intended to protect ecosystems as well as individual species—it says so right in the original 1973 text—but it has no provisions to ...

The researchers behind the Science study used data from more than 12.6 million butterflies spanning 342 individual species, drawing from 76,000 surveys across 35 nationwide monitoring programs.

Animal Activists Oppose Keeping Endangered Species in Zoos . Individual animals have sentience and therefore have rights. However, the whole species has no sentience, ...

But, until now, studies have focused on individual species, such as the climate change-threatened monarchs. Butterflies are also threatened by habitat loss and insecticides.

Jellyfish are finally giving up their secrets. Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of the ocean’s squishiest creatures—including one jelly that might be the oldest animal species on Earth.

Users of the iNaturalist app - scientists and park staff but also visitors and even kids - have logged 6,939 species in the Great Smoky Mountains.

These are among 42 U.S. bird species that have been placed on “red alert” by the conservation initiative Road to Recovery—and included in State of the Birds 2025, a new report released by a ...