WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Mark Laita, creator of Soft White Underbelly, has opened up about his haunting first encounter ...

Wildlife populations that become small and isolated, often due to habitat loss, inevitably experience inbreeding which can lead to the loss of fitness and eventual extinction. One solution is to ...

As koalas in southern Australia have grown from a few hundred to almost half a million, the marsupials show signs of regaining lost genetic variation.

If you follow media coverage of koalas, you could be forgiven for feeling confused. Recent stories describe a “koala paradox”: endangered in the north of Australia, abundant in the south; genetically ...

Scientists have discovered a potential path out of devastating genetic bottlenecks that could help these Australian animals, ...

Koalas suffered a massive population decline that left them with dangerously low genetic diversity. However, new genomic research suggests their rapid rebound may be helping reverse some of that ...

The latest strike in the battle over a potential North American stud book cap was made in the Kentucky House of Representatives, when a floor amendment was added to a fixed-odds wagering bill that ...

Researchers suggest that predation by a subspecies called Bigg's orcas might explain why members of another one, called ...

From shorebirds flying between their Arctic breeding grounds and southerly foraging ranges to freshwater fish returning to native spawning streams, migratory animals are struggling. About half of all ...

Two African leopard cubs born recently in the central state of Guanajuato are giving the at-risk species a boost — and visitors a rare look.

Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the ...