The ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, typically shorten as an organism ages. But when some fat-tail dwarf lemurs ...

Thanks to conservation efforts, a once-rare giant spider is making an extraordinary return across Europe, according to the ...

More than 16,000 species of animals are considered endangered, and many more have reached threatened status. You may have ...

Currently, just nine sifaka reside in the whole of Europe.

For most of us, visiting the zoo as a child brings up happy memories of adventures, melting ice cream, and childhood friends.

The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, ...

The bone from a palaeoloxodon - an extinct animal also known as a straight-tusked elephant which is believed to be the largest ever land mammal – is now on display in Chatteris Museum ...

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, edited New research reveals that the extinction of New Zealand’s giant, flightless moa was inevitable ... Lessons for Today’s Endangered Species Co-author Associate Professor Damien ...

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Woolly mammoths roamed the frozen tundras of Europe, Asia and North America until they went extinct around 4,000 years ago. Colossal made a splash in 2021 when it unveiled an ambitious plan to ...

The last surviving population, on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, went extinct about 4,000 years ago. The house mouse (Mus musculus) is a far more familiar creature, which most of us know as a ...