After nearly two decades, Callosity Back returned to Florida waters as a mother with her calf, joining an unusually high number of newborns this season for the critically endangered North Atlantic ...

Wolverines in the lower 48 States were trapped, hunted, and poisoned to near extinction in the late 1800s and early 1900s and ...

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Studying how ancient animals lived and why they died out can offer important insight to protecting species today.

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The contents of an ancient wolf pup's stomach yields surprising clues into the genetic lineage of extinct species.

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In a groundbreaking study published in Cell Genomics, researchers, led by paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak of the University of Toulouse, have uncovered a previously unknown Neanderthal population.