How they made the discovery — An endangered animal on the island nation of Madagascar might seem like an odd subject for a musical experiment. But the researchers decided to focus on the Indri ...

When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature has gone the way of the dinosaur and the dodo, but on occasion, scientists ...

As an example of image-dissemination, “Racing Extinction” is skillful, right down to the evocative (but nonstop) music by J. Sharp. It can’t match “The Cove” for focused passion, but ...

Madagascar's singing lemurs, the indris, sing off-key in infancy and get better as adults. These large, black-and-white lemurs with buggy eyes are a critically endangered species.

Rare ‘singing’ dog, thought to be extinct in wild for 50 years, still thrives By Katie Hunt, CNN 4 minute read ... The animals are severely inbred due to a lack of new genes.

Scientists have discovered dozens of animal species that were once thought to be silent, but are actually vocal communicators – including singing sea turtles and acoustic-producing living fossils.

The New Guinea Singing Dog, a dingo-like animal with a unique howling style, was considered extinct in the wild.But scientists reported Monday that the dogs live on, based on DNA collected by an ...

These findings show that the New Guinea singing dog is not extinct in the wild, as most zoologists had assumed, researchers reported recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Racing Extinction Airs December 2 Discovery Channel. Watch the trailer. Saving the world can be a beautiful thing. In Racing Extinction, director Louie Psihoyos lays out the case that the world is ...

Of the some 41,000 plant and animal species assessed by the IUCN as of 2022, more than 16,000 have been declared endangered. Animals are going extinct at historical rates due mostly to human ...