Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Once Thought This Snail Was Extinct. But a Surprising Discovery and Decade-Long Conservation Effort Revived the Species

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago ...
AZ Animals

This Ghost Fox Was Thought Extinct Until a Camera Trap Changed Everything

A Sierra Nevada red fox captured and collared for the first time in the southern Sierra may prove to be the key to saving the ...

Zoo keeper for endangered species feels privileged

She is a hoofstock animal keeper at Marwell Zoo, near Winchester in Hampshire, and looks after "everything with hooves" - ...

In the Age of AI, Animal Fables and Editorial Cartoons Return

As artificial intelligence reshapes the 21st century, Student B Press has launched Animal Intelligence, a cross-genre ...
Shropshire Star

Meet Wilbur, the porcupine with a penchant for sweet potato! Telford's Exotic Zoo opens doors for a wild half term

A Brazilian porcupine with a penchant for sweet potato and a new fossil lab where a four-metre skeleton of an extinct marine species is being prepped are among the star attractions at a Shropshire zoo ...
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How life would change if titanosaurs never went extinct

The Titanosaur is no longer. As the largest animal to roam the Earth, you'd think such an impressive presence would be almost ...

Scientists discover extinct species that was 26 feet long and inhabited the Earth 400 million years ago

Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Giant Carnivore Ran on Hooves. Scientists Are Investigating Its Massive Skull and Crushing Teeth to Decipher the Beast’s True Nature

For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to ...

One of California’s most elusive animals captured for first time outside Yosemite

MONO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – For the first time, researchers have captured and collared one of California’s most elusive mammals. The Sierra Nevada red fox. Fewer than 50 are believed to remain ...

95 million-year-old Spinosaurus had a scimitar-shaped head crest and waded through the Sahara's rivers like a 'hell heron'

Researchers have identified a new Spinosaurus species with a blade-like crest in Niger, changing our understanding of ...
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Photographer thrilled after capturing images of creature thought to be extinct: 'Its presence is a good sign'

"We need systematic studies." Photographer thrilled after capturing images of creature thought to be extinct: 'Its presence ...

These tiny snails were once feared extinct. Now, scientists say, ‘they’re doing absolutely brilliantly’

A decade ago, the only known surviving population of greater Bermuda land snails were discovered in an alleyway in the capital city of Hamilton, where they’d made a home on concrete slabs in the ...