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As It Happens6:34Why this baby chimpanzee is a symbol of hope for his entire speciesThe world's rarest chimpanzee population just got an itty-bitty boost with the birth of a new baby boy.Chester Zoo in Upton-by-Chester, England, is…

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on something scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction. There have been five great die-offs in the history of our planet, when at least 75 percent of the known…

The tree of life grew in 2022 as California Academy of Sciences researchers and their international collaborators discovered 146 new animal, plant and fungi species. The previously unknown creatures and plants were found around the world,…

PTI | | Posted by Krishna Priya Pallavi, Washington The SARS-CoV-2 virus is still highly transmissible between mammals, according to a study based on computer simulations. Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), US,…

PTI Washington, December 5The SARS-CoV-2 virus is still highly transmissible between mammals, according to a study based on computer…

A newly released report on the status of wild species in Canada has cataloged more species than any previous report — over 50,000 — and warns that more than 2,000 of them face a high risk of being wiped out in the wild.The Wild Species 2020…

Months after federal officials proposed designating the northern long-eared bat an endangered species, the Biden administration on Tuesday declared the bat endangered in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of…

Two Andean bear cubs were born in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 15, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute announced. It's considered a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with…

IANS New York, November 27 Earth is currently in the middle of a mass extinction, losing thousands of species each year and new research suggests environmental changes caused the first such…

Washington, November 26 Using a remote-controlled submarine, my colleagues and I discovered five new species of black corals living as deep as 2,500 feet (760 meters) below the surface in…