Scientists successfully extract RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, thylacine, revealing how its genes functioned before its extinction.

Brazilian police said Wednesday they were probing the outbreak of a lethal virus among some of the last Spix's Macaws, one of the world's rarest birds -- made famous as the blue parrot in the 2011 ...

Make DIY face masks for a great cause to support your community. Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs 'The Chosen' star Jonathan Roumie describes 'remarkable' conversion ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. For millions of Americans, Thanksgiving is simply not Thanksgiving without turkey. The ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

Twenty red-browed amazons were released in January 2025 in a forest reserve in Alagoas, Brazil, where only four wild individuals remained after the species was driven to near-extinction by illegal ...

The osprey population in Connecticut, once considered on the verge of extinction has seen a remarkable comeback, but numbers are now trending down from a year ago as scientists launch a study to ...

Tennessee has updated a law to make it easier to prosecute those who abandon animals. The state ranks in the top five for animal cruelty offenses, with over 2,600 reported cases from 2012-2021. Animal ...

Knoepfler is STAT’s Lab Dish columnist and a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it was acquiring ...

In a discovery straight out of legend, a young wildlife photographer in southern Spain has captured jaw-dropping footage of a pure white Iberian lynx — the first ever recorded sighting of its kind.