Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...

Decades-long conservation battles like the one to save the manatees take exhaustive legal advocacy and persistence in the ...

What you plant — and what you avoid — in the backyard can make a difference to your local butterfly population.

Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the ...

The authors have generated important resources such as a reference dataset of early primate development by utilizing single-cell transcriptomic technology together with induced pluripotent stem cells ...

By Will DunhamUS bird populations are experiencing alarming declines due to factors such as habitat loss and climate change, according to a new report identifying 112 species that have reached a ...

Many US Bird Species Seen as Reaching Population 'Tipping Point' By Will ... and egrets that show some increases," Parr added. Some examples of common birds now in decline include the chimney ...

Researchers at Rice University have uncovered a critical link between rising temperatures and declines in a species’ population, shedding new light on how global warming threatens natural ecosystems.

Archie, the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens' 55-year-old southern white rhino, has died as the oldest male of his species in human ... of the North American rhino population, according to the zoo's ...

The researchers suggested that the child was descended from populations in which humans ... research said in an email that the study is an example of how dating methods are becoming more effective ...

Last month an annual survey that looked just at monarch butterflies, which federal officials plan to put on the threatened species list, counted a nearly all-time low of fewer than 10,000 ...

STOCK IMAGE/Getty Images Total butterfly abundance ... Monarch butterflies, for instance, are one example of a thriving species. The population of monarch butterflies nearly doubled in population ...