The company that brought back the dire wolf is launching a new biovault to store the genomes of the most at-risk species.

Conservation programs do incredible work and have done so for decades. Many animal and habitat conservation efforts, both large and small, are successful. However, some conservation programs launch ...

Green sea turtles have recovered, but proposed rules could weaken habitat protections essential for endangered species in the US.

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, which has produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves and the woolly mouse, seeks to bring back extinct species.

Scientists in Australia developed a program to save countless thousands of endangered green sea turtles from falling to their deaths while attempting to lay their eggs. Australia's Great Barrier Reef ...

Animals are going extinct at an alarmingly fast rate, largely due to human activity. Same for plants. This is bad for all kinds of reasons, not... The cost of saving a species SPEAKER: NPR. [COIN ...

Blue whales were once almost lost as a species due to worldwide commercial whaling activities in the early 1900s. "It was subject to whaling so humans almost drove it extinct," said Catherine Kilduff, ...

These geckos have already disappeared completely from nine spots, and their habitat has been reduced to 41 percent of its ...

Across the world, in an animal sanctuary on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, lives a horde of Sumatran rhinos. Ten strong, they represent an estimated one-tenth of what’s left of their species. Two ...

The tragedy of Romeo began long before the frog found fame as the last of his kind. Starting in the 1970s, scientists started noticing something troubling in the amphibian world: the decline and, in ...

Much like his ninja namesake, Naruto the white-lipped peccary was a bit of a loner. Named after the titular character from a popular manga and anime, Naruto was the youngest male and one of the least ...