Moe Flannery, senior collections manager for ornithology and mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences, holds an ivory-billed woodpecker in San Francisco on September 24, 2021. Haven Daley/AP ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed declaring 23 species extinct this week. The species include birds, fish, mussels, and 11 species from Hawaii and the Pacific Islands. Because the animals have ...

Dall, William Healey. 1910. "Description of two new pulmonate mollusks, with a list of other species from the Solomon Islands collected by Dr. George A. Dorsey." Field Museum of Natural History ...

Scientists discover what appears to be the second known living species of vampire squid swimming in deep water off Hainan island, China. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Everyone loves the feeling of clean clothes—except maybe sea animals. Each load of laundry you do may be pouring hundreds of thousands of tiny pollutants into the water, which are then ingested by ...

Wild animals are equipped with a variety of techniques to avoid becoming lunch for a bigger, toothier animal. The most well-known methods include the classic “fight” and “flight,” as well as “freeze.” ...

When the Endangered Species Act was approved on this day, Dec. 28, in 1973, it allowed the U.S. government to take several steps to protect the nation’s native plants and animals. One of the most ...