"Was their exposure part of it, or not?" Experts are concerned by the rising trend of a type of cancer in younger people: 'We ...

The shortfin mako shark is on the brink of extinction due to overfishing, yet genetic analysis reveals that Atlantic ...

Work at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in northern Colorado is helping save one of the most endangered ...

Officials with the California Department of Fish & Wildlife say that as part of a broader initiative to expand the release ...

The harbor seals of Alaska’s Iliamna Lake, which make up one of only five freshwater seal populations in the world, have long been a subject of fascination for their separateness from the seals that ...

For decades, conservationists have pushed for changes to U.S. 64, a busy two-lane highway to the popular Outer Banks that runs straight through the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge – one of ...

Researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on ...

The future of Alaska’s red king crab fishery is at a turning point. Proposed changes to the fishery’s management in Southeast ...

By Kristine Sabillo Genetic diversity within many species is declining globally, according to a recently published study.

Researchers examined data for 628 species studied between 1985 and 2019. The greatest losses in genetic variation were seen ...

Shortfin makos are the fastest sharks in the sea, but they're failing to outpace the scale of overfishing that is driving ...

Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett WASHINGTON — NASA is beginning to implement a White House executive order to terminate certain diversity programs at the agency that were once praised by its current ...