Baobab fruit is loaded with essential nutrients that are good for humans. It has high amounts of vitamin C, calcium, ...

The Trump administration is proposing to significantly limit the Endangered Species Act's power to preserve crucial habitats by changing the definition of one word: harm. On Wednesday, the ...

Wildfires 'could spell the end' for rare species such as water voles and hen harriers. A pair of critically endangered cotton-top tamarins are born at a zoo in Hampshire. The project hopes to stop ...

Apr. 28, 2025 — Even under today's climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the conclusion of a recent study. For this finding, the ...

Thismia aliasii is a newly discovered endangered species in Malaysia, dependent on fungi and rare in the wild. Researchers have identified a new species of the elusive ‘fairy lantern’ genus Thismia in ...

Six of the eight baobab species are only found in Madagascar. The world’s third largest coral reef system is also just off Madagascar’s south-west coast.

China recently discovered a new mineral species — high-purity quartz, the CCTV News reported on Thursday, saying that this discovery is expected to reduce the country's heavy reliance on imports ...

And they're cute as hell." The large wolf species roamed the Americas for more than 100,000 years, before going extinct some 13,000 years ago. It was believed to have hunted large prey like ...

The birth of these pups is not the return of an extinct species. Instead, it’s a demonstration of how far we’ve come in the toolkit of synthetic biology (a field that involves redesigning systems ...

This groundbreaking achievement marks the first de-extinction of a species, reviving the dire wolf after 12,500 years. The pups exhibit distinctive features of the extinct creature, opening doors ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo, and chimpanzee. Areas of ...

Earlier this week, the Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences announced that it has successfully resurrected the dire wolf, a canine species that once roamed North America and went extinct over 12,500 ...