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Conservation Biology
Unfortunately, the Lunar Ark project is an idea more at home in science fiction than science fact.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
The crabs' blue blood contains an ancient immune defense mechanism that has helped save countless human lives.
This pup puts us one step closer to resurrecting extinct species.
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
Black holes aren't just the densest masses in the Universe, but they also spin the fastest of all massive objects. Here's why it must be so.
The “first-of-its-kind” archeological find is being reburied despite the fact that researchers haven’t finished studying it.
Livestock now outweighs wild mammals and birds ten-fold.
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
There's a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.
Disgusting behavior is often crucial to survival.
There may be thousands of undiscovered mammal species in the world. Most are small, like bats and rodents, but there could be primates, too. A lifeline for Bigfoot enthusiasts?
The way that the ancient Megalodon adapted to water temperature has important implications for modern marine creatures.
Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?
Scientists at the San Diego Zoo are on a mission to resurrect the extinct northern white rhino.
Local researchers identify a striking rainbow-colored fairy wrasse found off the coast of the Maldives as a fish species all its own.
The world’s great whales aren’t just vulnerable where they congregate, but everywhere they roam.
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Poachers drove the Northern White Rhino to extinction. One scientist and her “frozen zoo” are on a mission to bring them back.
Once numbering just 27 birds, the global population of California condors is now in the hundreds.
With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.
Tusks suddenly became a liability, even though in natural circumstances, tusks are very useful.
What was this mammoth tusk doing on the ocean floor 150 miles from land?
Pando, which is Latin for "I spread," is a single organism spanning some 106 acres.
When we try to recreate simpler versions of natural ecosystems, we invariably make mistakes, argues author and biologist Rob Dunn.
Most “irrecoverable carbon” is concentrated in these tiny bits of the Earth’s land mass. Can we keep it there?
Using DNA from samples of extinct flowers, synthetic biologists managed to approximate long-lost floral scents.
Virgin birth – which involves the development of an unfertilised egg – has preoccupied humans for aeons. And although it can’t happen in mammals, it does seem to be possible in […]
The story behind the meme is one of those rare cases where everybody wins. The spectacle of a large fish getting fired out of a cannon has taken the internet […]