Meet the Manx Loaghtan: a Bronze Age sheep with four horns, Viking history, and a genetic secret only recently uncovered.

For the first time in the world, BSIP and ZSI are attempting to sequence the whole nuclear genome of this extinct Indian big ...

Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...

Whether it's redfin pickerel in the Kennebec River or sturgeon in the Great Lakes, nearly one-third of freshwater fish species are facing possible extinction, threatening food supplies, ecosystems and ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

For some residents, it's a spectacle. For others, it's intimidation.

The creek is a favorite gathering spot for the Bay Area's wild turkeys. A few dozen congregate near the stream and in the parking lot, the vibrant males puffed up, their grand tails fanned out as they ...

Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so. Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired ...

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...

Species are showing how flexible they are in adapting to climate change, believes earth scientist Raghu Murtugudde ...

On World Wildlife Day, scientists are celebrating a milestone for eastern quolls: captive-bred animals released into the wild are now breeding ...