Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinook salmon migrate up the Columbia River in Oregon Chinook salmon migrate up the Columbia River in Oregon. (Dave Alan/Getty ...

Conservationists now list the penguins and seals as “Endangered.” Climate change in Antarctica has led to plunging ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

The real big bird returns. A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that once towered over people. The company, Colossal ...

For a long time, the prevailing theory was that dinosaurs were already in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth approximately 66 million years ago, leading to the extinction of about 70% ...

The term “de-extinction” often conjures images of Jurassic Park-style genetic manipulation, complete with ethical dilemmas and ecological chaos. But the reality of functional de-extinction—the ...

SILVER SPRING, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Is bringing a species back from extinction truly possible, or are we simply creating something new in its image? As headlines swirl around the highly publicized ...

A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today's South Africa. In less than a ...

The relationship between science and pop culture often looks like a one-way street: scientific discoveries inspire films, ...