A caiman seized during a raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in South Dallas last month has since been rehomed to an animal sanctuary in McKinney, and the sanctuary is ...

The reptiles belong to the Crocodylia order, but crocodiles belong to the Crocodylidae family and alligators -- as well as ...

Apr. 1, 2025 — A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus, gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked ...

Conservation efforts are bringing species back from the brink, even as overall biodiversity falls Date: March 18, 2025 Source: University of Cambridge Summary: A major review of over 67,000 animal ...

“This process essentially looks at the rate of genetic mutations as a guide for a species' evolutionary history,” said Corso. “We hypothesize that a population of dragonfishes may have ...

a prejudice or bias in favour of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species. Speciesism is often condemned as the same sort of bigotry as racism or ...

If we lived in an ordinary time—time here being understood in the long, unhurried sense of a geologic epoch—it would be nearly impossible to watch a species vanish. Such an event would occur ...

Involving more than 800 scientists from more than 400 institutions worldwide, Ocean Census has embarked on ten expeditions and numerous workshops—so far—with a sole aim: discovering new species in the ...

De-extinction, the science of resurrecting extinct species, is progressing in leaps and bounds. Here are six creatures that researchers could bring back to life — and one they've already revived.