Birds that feed on nectar or fruit evolved better mechanisms for managing metabolism, blood pressure and high glucose.

Scientists studying data collected over more than three decades found accelerating losses. Their research offers clues about the causes.

The accelerating decline of birds is a bellwether of far deeper biodiversity crisis — one that threatens not only beloved species but the humans who live alongside them.

A ground-dwelling bird known for its elaborate mating dances on the southern Great Plains will no longer be federally protected.

A lethal form of bird flu, which has already killed tens of thousands of elephant seals in the Southern Hemisphere, is now spreading in a colony of elephant seals in California, scientists announced ...

Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so.Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired Dallas-based entrepreneur seemsBy bringing back the woolly mammoth (48,000 of ...

Not all animals have the name recognition of a T. rex or a dodo. However, plenty of well-known animals have vanished from the ...

A Melbourne laboratory using Jurassic Park science to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction believe they could also save endangered species from housing development.

Humans have dominated this planet for tens of thousand years. One study showed the arrival of people in Australia about 47,000 years ago caused the extinction of marsupials such as the giant ...

Resurrecting dire wolves is pretty darn metal. Hatching new dodo birds would make the impossible seem possible. Bringing back the woolly mammoth is cool. Why it matters: Dallas-based "de-extinction" ...

Colossal, based in Dallas, allowed media to tour its new headquarters and lab last Thursday, which the company is unveiling ...

Behind secure doors, scientists advance gene-editing research that has made the $10 billion startup one of Texas’ most closely watched biotech companies.