Two Guam kingfisher chicks that hatched at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh are part of a program to help restore the bird ...

Amy Scott, host of the podcast "How We Survive," reports on a company that's working on de-extinction innovation to try and ...

Backed by George R.R. Martin and Peter Jackson, Colossal Biosciences plans to preserve DNA from roughly 2,300 threatened and endangered U.S. species.

This Critically Endangered Bird’s Song Was About to Disappear. Scientists Saved It by Recruiting Some Wild Vocal Tutors ...

Should we bring back extinct animals? Wrong question. Why are we bringing back extinct animals when we have animals, plants, and fungi that are going extinct now, daily? By 2050, up to half of all ...

The US Endangered Species Act compels the government to identify species at risk of extinction and devise plans to restore ...

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 ...

American bald eagles need towering trees to raise young. Blanding’s turtles thrive in undisturbed freshwater habitats. Presidio manzanita, an evergreen shrub, requires unusual serpentine soils to grow ...

The American bald eagle--our nation's national bird and symbol--is doing well. Populations have been expanding for years, and are ...

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

The White House has begun review of a set regulations that could narrow protections for imperiled species by limiting critical habitat designations and bringing economic considerations into ...