DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age of dinosaurs.

On Thursday, the Aquarium of the Pacific released its first Marine Species Report Card, detailing the population trends of 30 ...

How do you identify an animal in a photo? These days, a host of AI-driven apps are available that make this an easy task. But ...

From December through March every year, the waters off Georgia’s coast provide calving grounds for the estimated 70 remaining ...

Innovative nest boxes are helping save a tiny monkey species from extinction, providing safe shelters and boosting their population in the wild.

Four critically endangered African penguin chicks hatched at Mystic Aquarium in early January, the aquarium announced ...

With our planet around for nearly five billion years, countless species have walked—or crawled—on its surface. Some of them have managed to fight for their existence and staved off extinction.

Cutting-edge technology in a lab at Florida Atlantic University was used to digitize the skeleton of the rarest marine mammal in the world, a porpoise called the vaquita, ensuring that the animal ...

Shortfin makos are the fastest sharks in the sea, but they're failing to outpace the scale of overfishing that is driving ...

Good News Network reported on a survey in Chihuahua, Mexico, showing the number of parrots has grown by more than 10% in the last 12 years, reaching about 2,500. This marks a major step forward for a ...

The Negros Bleeding-Heart Pigeon is considered a critically endangered species and is endemic to Negros and Panay. According to EDGE of Existence, an animal conservation group, there are only 70 to ...