Earlier this year, workers built a concrete perimeter wall for a planned resort on Pemba Island off the coast of Tanzania. There’s scant public information about the Mantuli development, but the wall ...

Since 2008, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, has imposed speed restrictions on ships 65 feet and longer when they pass through areas that North Atlantic right whales ...

Scientists may have been dramatically undercounting the number of vertebrate species on Earth. A large analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every recognized species of fish, bird, ...

Scientists long believed stem tetrapods largely disappeared after a major ecological event known as the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse. That event caused widespread destruction of tropical forests ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, until now known only through fossils, have been rediscovered.

Hawaiʻi’s role in a recent discovery in the forests of New Guinea is rewriting a scientific story that seemed finished thousands of years ago.

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as the ethical questions are thorny.

It was in northern Queensland that an automatic camera captured an unexpected sequence in January 2026. The animal identified is the northern quoll, also called the northern quoll cat (Dasyurus ...

California stretches from coastal cliffs to towering mountains, from sun-baked deserts to lush valleys. Somewhere between all that geographic chaos, nature got creative. Really creative. This state ...

Illustration of the Hawaiian ibis. Credit: S Citron/University of Lethbridge. Islands are known for producing unusual animals, and a newly studied extinct bird from Hawaii may be one of the strangest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock After nearly 60 years without a confirmed sighting, researchers have rediscovered a plant they believed was ...

California, the Golden State, is home to a diverse range of animal life, so it is no surprise that the state has designated 16 official animals to represent its unique identity. Official state animals ...