Resurrecting extinct animals is both “exhilarating and terrifying,” says Beth Shapiro, an expert in ancient DNA and a biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Exhilarating ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

The Anguilla Bank skink, a Caribbean species discovered along with 23 others in 2012, is vulnerable to extinction. Karl Questel One night in June 2012, an entomologist named Piotr Naskrecki was ...