Stories like the recent heartwarming discovery researchers made about the Yellowstone bison or the unique one-in-a-million animal spotted in Texas are just a few examples of the remarkable persistence ...

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: ...

Large numbers of animal species perished ... many of them even before 15,000 years ago. In South America, large animal species, such as tapirs and giant rodents, suffered an 80 percent loss ...

Its South American exhibit that opened this week ... I think it’s a wonderful thing to say there are animals people have never even heard of.” The new exhibit features a cotton-topped tamarin ...

Wildlife officials in South America are working hard to rerelease ... For decades, conservationists have been working to improve the number of condors, but they reproduce very slowly.

WASHINGTON — Nearly a quarter of animals ... river in North America and Europe is massively modified” through damming, putting freshwater species at risk, he said. In South America, the ...

The new findings represent the oldest evidence of both the presence of Homo sapiens and human interaction with large animals in southern South America during the height of the last Ice Age ...