A limestone quarry in Hunan province, China, has yielded more than 150 species dating back approximately 512 million years — ...

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Whether it's redfin pickerel in the Kennebec River or sturgeon in the Great Lakes, nearly one-third of freshwater fish ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have been freezing living cells from endangered species. Here’s how the Frozen Zoo® is ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

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LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Biodiversity loss is emerging as a systemic risk to the global economy and financial stability, a landmark report said on Monday, urging companies to act now or potentially ...