The story of Celia, the last bucardo in the world, and her short-lived clone
A changing climate could have driven the evolution of bizarre species with snouts five times longer than the rest of their skulls.
Humans talk to their babies in a very particular way—and so do dolphins.
Forget changing only the names that honor the horrors of the past. Some biologists now argue no species should ever be named after a single individual.
Jon T. Coleman, the author of Vicious, on the history of America's fraught relationship with its most storied predator
Six years ago, Michigan’s entire population of 9 million discovered it had been endangered by chemical contamination of livestock feed sold to farmers all over the state. The full dimensions of this agricultural disaster are now becoming evident, and at least 40 million people may be affected.
Tracking a herd’s movements on horseback shows how essential migration is to Wyoming’s ecosystems.
The gregariousness of a dog, the dignity of a cat.
An organization created to protect the purity of dog bloodlines has become, a journalist argues, misguided in its view of “quality “ and guilty of encouraging destructive forms of inbreeding that have robbed dogs of traditional skills and left them vulnerable to crippling disease