The United States has the most horses in the world, with a population of more than 10.3 million animals. That's roughly 18% of all horses. The country is also home to more than a hundred registered ...

Goetze: A time-worn statement regarding things being "here today and gone tomorrow” proves true in our everyday lives as well ...

(Gary Braasch / Corbis) When Polynesians arrived at the uninhabited Hawaiian Islands thousands of years ago, they found an array of colorful tree snails, each less than an inch in length, across the ...

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Unfortunately, one million endangered species could become extinct. On World Wildlife Day, learn who is at risk and how to ...

Charles Bergman, 325 pages, softcover: $21.95. University of Illinois Press, 2003. Biologists know that human activities are causing thousands of species to go extinct. According to Bergman, our ...

Every American red wolf alive right now is descended from only 14 canids. In the 1970s, humans drove the red wolf to the brink of extinction.... The American red wolf is endangered. These 'ghost genes ...

Scientists have cloned an endangered US animal for the first time, creating a black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann from the frozen cells of an ancestor in a landmark achievement that boosts ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The North Atlantic right whale is one of the most endangered marine mammals on the planet. The Navy says it is dedicated to is doing its part to protect this species on the brink of ...

Dragons have long gripped our collective imagination, likely first appearing in both European and Asian mythology. More recently, a series of sepia-toned images appearing to show various "extinct ...