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For centuries, cheetahs roamed vast swaths of India and prowled among lions, tigers and leopards. They were declared extinct in 1952 after decades of hunting by princely rulers and British colonizers, shrinking...

Yulia the endangered seal did not seem phased by the rockets from Gaza, let alone the missiles heading in the opposite direction.About six feet long and two decades old, Yulia heaved herself...

Joro spiders are the size of your palm. They weave webs up to three feet across, and for the past decade, the East Asian arachnids have been spreading throughout the southeastern United...

An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration voted on Thursday in favor of approving a vaccine by Pfizer to prevent the severe respiratory virus that is a potentially deadly threat...

Credit...Andrew Spear for The New York TimesIf a bird is not in a forest and there is no one to see that it is not there, is it really not there? That,...

If there’s new hope, it’s blurry. What’s certain: The roller coaster tale of the ivory-billed woodpecker, a majestic bird whose presumed extinction has been punctuated by a series of contested rediscoveries, is...

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An ambitious digital imaging project has produced what researchers describe as a “digital twin” of the R.M.S. Titanic, showing the wreckage of the doomed ocean liner with a level of detail that...

Our understanding of birds has been profoundly shaped by the work of everyday people. After all, anyone can step outside and pay attention to an untamed world swooping above.This summer, we’re inviting...

The NewsGlobal temperatures are likely to soar to record highs over the next five years, driven by human-caused warming and a climate pattern known as El Niño, forecasters at the World Meteorological...