Another chapter in one of the greatest comeback stories in the world of endangered species is being written with the release ...

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Jaipur: The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) which was ‘quietly’ shifted to Karauli district by the forest department was found dead on Wednesday.

Since its founding, The Atlantic has examined how thinking on animal welfare and rights has developed. A 1976 article by ...

Scientists have sequenced DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese, the oldest in the archaeological record. The intact cheese was ...

The primary pathway for human mercury poisoning is consumption of fish that absorb high concentrations of methylmercury ...

The record-breaking crystal will act as a DNA time capsule that could be used to bring back humanity after our extinction, ...

Though measuring animal intelligence is tricky, some animals show remarkable cognitive abilities that may rival our own.

Surprisingly calm-natured and docile, meeting a rhino was nothing like I’d imagined. Standing close to a two-ton titan ...

You can take a Carolina chickadee out of the forest, but you can’t take the forest out of this bird. A flawed study unintentionally verified just that.

California condor researchers track every rare survivor in the nearly extinct species, and mourn the loss of a Colorado ...

In Richard Powers’s novel, a programmer looks for relief from mental distress via a life aquatic.