Maintaining sustainable animal populations is fundamental to zoo and aquarium missions in education, visitor engagement, entertainment, scientific advancement, public health and wellbeing, advocacy, ...

Frog release days always start early, at about 4 a.m., so that staff can get up to the site before the day gets too hot, said Erin Lundy, manager of conservation initiatives at the Aquarium of the Pac...

Kurt, a Przewalski’s horse, was born at in Texas in August 2020. Less than three years later, Ollie followed. Out in the wild, their species had gone extinct in the 1960s. Both individuals, born of a…

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

The NHM Collections Study Awards provide funding for undergraduate and graduate students to visit and study the collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the La Brea Tar Pits & ...

Mountain yellow-legged frogs find a new home in the Sierra Nevada

More than 3,000 critically endangered mountain yellow legged frogs and tadpoles have just been released into Southern California's mountains, continuing a 20 year breeding effort that has now returned over 10,000 animals to the wild after their population fell 98%.