Despite increasing protection measures, these fish are among the world’s most endangered animals. New tests to detect species being traded, as well as population studies, aim to help save them.
China's Chang'e 6 lander touched down on the far side of the moon earlier this month, and the lunar material it collected has now been delivered back to Earth for research.
Australia’s iconic marsupial has been viewed as a food source, pest, mascot and, now, a conservation concern. Scientists are breaking down myths — using genetics, robots and citizen science — and finding new ways to protect the animals.
The woolly rhinoceros faced extinction about 10,000 years ago, after the last Ice Age. New research shows that shrinking habitats played a central role in the species' demise.
The Great Red Spot probably formed about 200 years ago and couldn't have been visible with the earliest telescopes, according to new simulations of Jupiter's atmosphere.
Nearly 2,000 years before Genghis Khan swept across Europe and Asia, a new analysis reveals nomadic pastoralists in Mongolia were eating many of the same things they still do today.