endangered and extinct species

A New Dinosaur Museum Rises From a Hole in the Ground in New Jersey

Ten years ago, this was just a big hole in the ground behind a Lowe’s home improvement store in southern New Jersey, an unlikely place to...

Science8 months ago

A Lifeboat to London for Darwin’s Frogs

The folk song “Frog Went a-Courtin’” recounts the efforts of a sword- and pistol-toting frog to woo a mouse, who warns him that without the consent...

Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests

Science8 months ago

Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests

President Trump has promised to “drill, baby, drill.” Now, he also wants to log. On Saturday, Mr. Trump directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass...

Helen Hays, Who Helped Bring Terns Back to Long Island Sound, Dies at 94

Science9 months ago

Helen Hays, Who Helped Bring Terns Back to Long Island Sound, Dies at 94

Helen Hays, an intrepid ornithologist who for nearly 50 years led scores of volunteers to Great Gull Island, a postage-stamp islet in Long Island Sound, where...

Extinct Human Species Lived in a Brutal Desert, Study Finds

Science10 months ago

Extinct Human Species Lived in a Brutal Desert, Study Finds

Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans live only in the jungles of Indonesia. But humans live pretty much everywhere. Our species has spread...

This Tiny Fish’s Mistaken Identity Halted a Dam’s Construction

Politics10 months ago

This Tiny Fish’s Mistaken Identity Halted a Dam’s Construction

For such a tiny fish, the snail darter has haunted Tennessee. It was the endangered species that swam its way to the Supreme Court in a...

Can 70 Moms Save the Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale?

Science1 year ago

Can 70 Moms Save the Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale?

Squilla took to motherhood. When she was first spotted with her new calf in January 2021 off the Georgia coast, mother and daughter stayed so close...