The 66th Supplement to the American Ornithological Society's (AOS) Check-list of North American Birds, published in ...

Colossal Biosciences bold announcements about its project to replicate dire wolf traits have drawn criticism from many ...

A report affirms that greenhouse gases are warming the planet, but it also found no convincing evidence that U.S. hurricanes, ...

The 66th Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s (AOS’s) Check-list of North American Birds, published today in Ornithology, includes several significant updates to the classification of ...

Of all sad stories that are to be found in the annals of natural history, that of the Great Auk-or Pinguinus impennis-is about the saddest of all. This huge, flightless bird has ranged from the icy ...

A few months later, Colossal Biosciences, the Texas-based company that produced the creatures, declared: “The first ...

Modern zoos are undergoing a transformation; forget those tiny, animal-packed cages of the past, these zoos are the largest in the world!

This Greek name can be translated as ‘tiny, spiked backbone.’ This is because the vertebrae found by researchers presented spikes, something unique in the Tanystropheidae, an extinct family of ...

Only about one-fourth of Iceland’s 39,769 square miles is habitable by humans, mostly along the southern shore. Geologically, ...

A surprise morning encounter with a little brown bat sparks a closer look at Ohio’s bat species, their threats, protections and why they need our help.

Many birds on Rēkohu Chatham Islands show how ‘island syndrome’ influences evolution – they are distinct but remain closely ...