FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Making sure animal species are sustainable and viable for generations to come is the goal of species survival plans in AZA accredited zoos across the country and around the ...

Researchers study house sparrow genetics to understand survival, evolution, and how species respond to environmental change.

Animal reproduction and breeding encompasses the full spectrum of natural, assisted and genetic processes that underpin the perpetuation, improvement and conservation of species across diverse taxa.

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

From tiger recoveries and chimpanzee genetics to AI conservation tools, this accessible overview includes exciting research ...

xplores the various methods of animal reproduction, highlighting the dependency of young animals on their parents, particularly in mammals, birds, and amphibians. It explains both asexual reproduction ...

Get ready for Valentine’s Day by learning how zoo matchmakers use science to “swipe right” for conservation. Mike Bock Male Andean bear Quito (above) has fathered two cubs at the Smithsonian’s ...

An unprecedented avian flu outbreak in Argentine Patagonia devastated a stable elephant seal colony, highlighting the rising threat of infectious disease to wildlife in a warming world.

For 35 years, American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia, ...

Scientists are concerned that the H5N1 virus could set off another human pandemic. But it is already putting species under pressure in the wild. By Emily Anthes Every spring, more than 200,000 ...

When large and warty cane toads were first brought to Australia nearly 100 years ago, they had a simple mission: to gobble up beetles and other pests in the sugarcane fields. Today, though, the toads ...