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Tropical Storm Helene devastated healthy populations of the eastern hellbender salamander. Because of this they may receive ...

In the age of rapid urban expansion, the balance between development and preservation has become increasingly delicate. For ...

Nearly a quarter of freshwater species face extinction due to habitat destruction, pollution, and water overuse.

Researchers use CRISPR to overcome seemingly insurmontable reproductive barriers — but that doesn't mean this could work for ...

What species will become the next rulers of Earth when humans are no longer dominant? Which creatures might inherit the throne?

The giant salamander species in Appalachia was already in trouble when Hurricane Helene devastated swaths of its habitat in ...

What happens when you put animals and plants above human beings? You have California wildfires.

Researchers from the German Max Planck Institutes of Geoanthropology and Biology Tübingen use genomic data to study the ...