An extinct Australian animal can once again be seen bounding across a paddock after rare 16mm film was digitised by the ...

A new U.S. proposal could give all eight pangolin species Endangered Species Act protection for the first time.

The United States’s Endangered Species Act (ESA), signed into law in 1973, has helped revive the populations of nearly 300 species.. The ESA protects animals that are classified under federal ...

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

In early January 2025, 20 red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha), a parrot species that was extinct in the Brazilian state ...

Until now, the kultarr was thought to be a single widespread species, ranging from central New South Wales to the Carnarvon ...

Numbats and thylacines shared an ancestor some 40 million to 35 million years ago, and the two species share up to 95 percent of their DNA.The numbat’s genome could therefore serve as a template ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing added protections for seven species of pangolin under the Endangered Species Act. The pangolin is a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales. It ...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals ...

Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied lizard diversity that existed alongside dinosaurs ...

Thylacines — marsupials known as Tasmanian tigers — were declared extinct decades ago, but efforts to find one in the wild ...

The species was named Sphyragnathus tyche, combining Greek words “sphyra,” meaning hammer and “gnathus,” meaning jaw for the ...