The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

MAY HAVE YOU LOOKING DOWN AT SPARROWS AND PIGEONS, BUT TURN YOUR HEAD UP TOWARD THE ICONIC TOWER OF THE MARRIOTT VACATION ...

Learn about the Striped Newt and the fight for its endangered species protection after recent legal developments.

A new stretch of border wall will soon be built through the San Rafael Valley, southeast Arizona's last major open space for ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

A new bill targets a predator some Arizona ranchers say is killing their livelihood as well as their livestock.

The debris arrives in the rockets’ wake: melted plastics, aluminum and pieces of blue adhesive. It all ends up stranded on the sands of Bagdad beach in northern Tamaulipas, Mexico, home to an ...

A groundbreaking vaccine administered to two elephants at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden appears to be effective, a ...

President Donald Trump will tour the newly opened Florida immigration detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz" on ...

His future looked grim until Alice, a domestic Pony of the Americas who’d recently lost her newborn, accepted him as her own.