Chester Zoo, in the UK, has announced that it has received scientific confirmation that an “extinct” snail has been saved ...

Learn how social connections may influence extinction risk in some wildlife species.

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Little kids hosting make-believe tea parties is a fixture of childhood playtime and long presumed to be exclusively a human ...

A Hawaii County law came into force in January 2026 that bans the feeding of feral cats on county property. We examine why.

A mass extinction occurred less than a billion years ago that eradicated most species from the face of Earth. A newly discovered fossil site in Hunan, South China, captured an ecosystem in recovery, ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

An analysis by the Australian Conservation Foundation found that recent government-approved projects could put endangered ...

In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistants worldwide surpassed 8 billion, more than one per person on the planet.

A wolf pup sealed in Siberian permafrost carried a surprise more revealing than a museum label. Inside its stomach, ...

The word "dissociation" has grown in popularity and become embedded in everyday language, but while the term has gained ...