Fossils from some of the oldest-known animals on Earth, dating from 574 million years ago (Ediacaran period), suggest that cloning, not competition, dominated the Ediacaran seas, slowing evolution ...

A huge treasure trove of ancient DNA from animals including extinct woolly mammoths has been discovered in frozen squirrel faeces in Canada's remote Yukon territory, scientists said Tuesday.

It was not until modern technology broke the DNA code that the true identity of the King Island emu was learned.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- The Little Rock Zoo is asking the public to help name four new cheetah brothers set to arrive later this month from Wildlife Safari Park in Nebraska. Zoo officials announced the ...

The urgent search for a missing Tasmanian devil has deepened after CCTV showed the endangered marsupial sprinting away from ...

According to the CDC, Ebola cases in Africa have been associated with hunting, butchering and processing meat from infected animals.

A new study from Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institute, the Mpala Research Centre and many partner institutions has now documented the interconnection between the largest animals in the ...

Florida has strict rules on feeding wildlife, including bears and gators. Here’s what’s illegal and the penalties you could ...

A pair of endangered rays taken from a Tasmanian harbour as a species "insurance policy" have been released back into the wild after helping to produce more than 400 eggs for a captive research ...

Staff at the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy are overseeing the repatriation of ‘the shiest antelope’ from western zoos to their native east African country ...

In a Philadelphia laboratory, a molecule that last circulated through the bloodstream of a woolly mammoth tens of thousands of years ago is killing bacteria again. The molecule, a short chain of amino ...

The new study found that they lost their arboreal habitat due to a drying climate, a dire warning for the modern-day marsupials that face a similar threat ...