One of the best parts about zoos is the way they seem to constantly have a star-studded lineup of the cutest baby animals in the world. Part of a zoo's job is to contribute to responsible breeding - ...

Woolly mammoths had a slightly shorter version of the gene, which the researchers believe may have contributed to its ...

Pandas are very cute, but they don't do much for their ecosystem, and they take away a lot of resources from other endangered ... go into preserving habitat and then saving individuals of other ...

As rabbits go ... to be “scientifically cute” — the smallest rabbit in the world, the pygmy rabbit. The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit was listed on the U.S. Endangered Species List after ...

The American pika — a small, herbivorous, conspicuously cute mammal related to rabbits ... Most directly, warming can also cause the animals to die from overheating. Protecting the pika as endangered ...

The purpose: to capture for posterity species ... going to 15,000, which could take another 10-15 years. We asked him about his project, which we’re featuring in this special issue on endangered ...

It may surprise you to learn that several species of rabbits and hares are among the most endangered mammals on ... these little rabbits have nowhere to go.

And just yesterday, a number of Australian species were added to the endangered list, including a very cute and fluffy native ... in time and those species will go extinct. We may even lose ...

De-extinction would need to go beyond modifying an existing species to show superficial traits from an extinct relative. Many aspects of an extinct species' biology remain unknown. A woolly coat ...