Scientists have believed there are five living species of bettongs—but our new research, published today in Zootaxa, changes ...

There have long been five acknowledged living species of bettong: the boodie, the woylie, the northern bettong, the rufous ...

It’s the ominous slogan for “Hotel California,” an iconic fictional lodging dreamed up by the Eagles in 1976. One of the rock ...

A small percentage of species protected by the law have ever recovered, but an even smaller fraction have gone extinct. With ...

Except, of course, when it comes to snakes. Humans scored a rare victory over our snake antagonists this week when the U.S.

Queensland’s newly released State of the Environment Report for 2024 revealed 114 new species have become threatened, while ...

The State of the World's Birds has sobering data that points to global threats bird populations are enduring as they struggle ...

The creatures, which ranged in size from that of a fox to more than 50 feet long, divided their time between the coast and ...

A few months later, Colossal Biosciences, the Texas-based company that produced the creatures, declared: “The first de-extinct animals are here.” Of 20 edits made to the animals’ genomes ...

Some 30,000 years ago, Stone Age people decorated a cave, today known as Cueva de los Casares, in central Spain with pictures ...

There are plenty of worthy contenders that didn't make it into this year's top 10 underrated animals. But there's a good reason we didn't include the ibis.

A rare pine tree dubbed the "dinosaur tree" because as a species it is millions of years old, has produced seeds for the ...