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Trump interior secretary Doug Burgum said that the endangered species is too big and suggested that the future of conservation is in cloning.

Science & Energy

Trump Official Says It’s Okay to Destroy Endangered Species Because We Can Just Clone Them

By Frank Landymore

After a rare captivity birth, a family of endangered siamang gibbons were "heard singing together" to celebrate the new arrival.

Endangered Primates Heard “Singing Together” After Rare Birth in Captivity

By Noor Al-Sibai

A California court has ruled that bees technically count as fish in a conservation effort that could actually end up helping the buzzy boys.

Science & Energy

Court Rules That Legally, Bees Can Be Classified as Fish

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Spanish company is pouring tens of millions of dollars into becoming the world's first commercial octopus farm.

Science & Energy

Critics Horrified by World’s First Octopus Farm

By Noor Al-Sibai

Facebook announced it would be cracking down on people using the platform to sell land in the Amazon rainforest

Facebook Vows to Stop Selling the Amazon Rainforest

By Tony Ho Tran

Bees killed 63 endangered South African penguins last week in what a conservationist is calling a "dramatic" loss for the species.

Science & Energy

63 Endangered Penguins Die After Being Attacked by Enraged Bees

By Dan Robitzski

A biotech startup helmed by provocative Harvard geneticist George Church has secured $15 million in funding to bring back woolly mammoths.

Science & Energy

George Church Has Raised $15M to Bring an Elephant-Mammoth Hybrid to Life. Could It Actually Work?

By Simon Spichak

In order to determine how a scrappy snail evaded an invasive predator for decades, scientists turned it into a cyborg with a mini shell computer.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Turned Snails Into Tiny Cyborgs

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists cloned an endangered species for the first time with the successful birth of Elizabeth Ann, a black-footed ferret.

Science & Energy

For the First Time, Scientists Clone Endangered Species

By Dan Robitzski

In order to protect the Moon from destructive lunar mining operations, one scientists suggests granting the Moon legal personhood.

Scientist: We Should Grant the Moon Legal Personhood

By Dan Robitzski

Tourists are ignoring safety measures when going to see endangered gorillas, spreading deadly diseases and putting the animals in greater danger.

Endangered Gorilla Community Ravaged by Exotic Man-Borne Disease

By Dan Robitzski

After 30 years, conservationists have finally confirmed using camera traps that the deer-like silver-backed chevrotain is not extinct.

Science & Energy

Scientists Thought This Creature Was Extinct For 30 Years. Then It Returned.

By Kristin Houser

Over the past six months, hundreds of endangered species, especially the Helmeted Hornbill, have illegally gone up for sale on Facebook.

Science & Energy

Traffickers Are Using Facebook to Sell Endangered Bird Skulls

By Dan Robitzski

Preventing bird collisions with planes and other manmade objects could be as simply as adding red or blue LEDs to our creations.

Science & Energy

Planes Kill Huge Numbers of Birds. LEDs Could Save Their Lives.

By Kristin Houser

AI That Counts And Identifies Wildlife Could Be A Game-changer For Ecologists

Artificial Intelligence

AI That Counts And Identifies Wildlife Could Be A Game-changer For Ecologists

By Dan Robitzski

New Facial Recognition Software Tracks and Protects Endangered Primates

Facial recognition

New Facial Recognition Software Tracks and Protects Endangered Primates

By Kristin Houser