Long before Las Vegas’ Fremont Street was a gambling hub festooned with neon lights, Oreocarya insolita, a shin-high ...

Nevada’s missing plants and animals are drawing attention as a new journal tracks species that have gone undocumented for ...

Herugavialis is the new name for a fossil found in the same rocks that built the Great Sphinx. The reptile is a unique branch ...

The specimen was long mislabeled, according to a new study. Paleontologists identified it as a previously undescribed genus ...

Several endangered species in the U.S. have recovered from their endangered status thanks to federal protections.

For the vast majority of human existence, extinction has been a one-way process. If a species has gone extinct, the species is forever lost to the world, until now. Thanks to advances in genetics, ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Why large numbers of reptile species face extinction and what that means for our ecosystem. Globally, about 20 percent of reptile species are facing the threat of extinction. That ...

Changes to the Endangered Species Act may leave iconic Georgia wildlife like the right whale vulnerable.

The Justice Department’s Energy and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) yesterday filed motions for summary judgment in four cases defending challenges to a rule rescinding the regulatory definition of ...