As the most potential ecological "law", the mechanism of the species-area relationship (SAR) remains controversial. Essentially, the SAR addresses the relationship between regional area and ...

When Sudan the white rhino was put down by his carers earlier this year, it confirmed the extinction of one of the savannah’s most iconic subspecies. Despite decades of effort from conservationists, ...

Grief for an animal at the end of its life is unlike any other emotion. It cleaves a depthless void that feels empty and hollow. It’s a feeling that animal keepers and caretakers know well, but it’s ...

Memories enable humans and other animals to predict the future. However, memories can only serve as useful predictions if they are updated every time the predictions prove to be wrong. Because new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a scientific breakthrough that could forever change how humans interact with our planet, Colossal Biosciences said it has ...

Last year, hiking in Morocco’s eastern Atlas Mountains, I found an ammonite, a fossil of those spiral-shape cephalopods that to many symbolize paleontology itself. The fossilization process had turned ...

In a scientific breakthrough that could forever change how humans interact with our planet, Colossal Biosciences said it has brought back an extinct animal that last walked the Earth roughly 10,000 ...