A red fox rests near Lassen Peak in this 2022 trail camera photo. Inbreeding is impacting Lassen's red foxes, which were abundant in the region before the 1900s, found a UC Davis study. (California ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Preserving the northern white rhino now requires overcoming functional extinction, as there are only two females remaining. The ...

Since 1970, wildlife populations globally have plummeted by about 73%. One driver is habitat fragmentation that isolates small populations, leading to inbreeding and fewer healthy offspring.

As the global biodiversity crisis accelerates at unprecedented speed, Colossal Biosciences has emerged as a conservation technology powerhouse developing advanced tools to preserve what cannot be ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The established conservation practice of relocating animals from large, genetically diverse populations to small communities of inbred endangered species may risk introducing more ...

Imagine if scientists could reach back through time and recover the genetic blueprints of species that vanished thousands of years ago, then use those ancient instructions to rebuild lost traits in ...

An Instagram post about the last two northern white rhinos references a scenario conservationists have warned us about for decades. Saving this species may now be an impossibility. The only living ...

A rescue effort can take many forms — a life raft, a firehose, an airlift. For animals whose populations are in decline from inbreeding, genetics itself can be a lifesaver. Genomic research led by UC ...

Preserving the northern white rhino now requires overcoming functional extinction, as there are only two females remaining. The extinction vortex creates a biological threshold where low numbers ...