The Iowa skipper butterfly, once prevalent in prairies across the middle of the U.S., is now at risk of extinction — according to the Center for Food Safety, which has petitioned federal agencies to ...

The vast American wilderness holds many secrets, and sometimes those secrets include animals that science says shouldn't be there anymore. From dense forests to remote mountain ranges, reports persist ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out the relationships and adaptations of these “absolutely bonkers” herbivores ...

The world we share with countless species is growing smaller, and for some, it’s already too late. Over the past century, human activity, coupled with environmental changes, has pushed a heartbreaking ...

Prioritizing which animals and plants to help is driven mostly by whether we like them or not. Some experts say that may not be the best approach.

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big, blinding event: kaboom! Vulcanologists, seismologists, geologists and ...

This summer, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and The Wilds released a total of 116 rare and endangered giant salamanders into protected waterways of eastern Ohio. The juvenile eastern hellbenders are ...

North Carolina Republican legislative leaders announced plans to vote on redrawing the state's U.S. House district map for 2026 elections.

Since 2012, over 2,000 hellbenders have been released in the state by the Columbus Zoo and The Wilds, with over 350 having been released just last year alone.

One of the US.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation is the subject of an effort for cutbacks ...

Alamosaurus, the largest land animal to ever roam North America, has long been a subject of fascination for paleontologists. In a remarkable discovery made by students from Sul Ross State University, ...

More than a quarter of all animals, plants and fungi assessed are at risk of extinction, according to the latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.