There are endangered animals, and then there are those that are the last of their kind. The world's rarest animal is just that.

A piece of amber from the early Miocene was discovered in the northern mines of the Santiago Providence of the Dominican Republic and then deposited in a natural history museum, according to a study ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Earlier this month, the Chinese government escalated things even further, subjecting seven rare earth elements to a more ...

By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher, who has covered China’s rare earth industry since 2009, reported from Beijing, Ganzhou and Longnan, China. China shook the world in 2010 when it imposed an ...

“Dirt ants are rare finds in the wild. Finding one today is exciting given how well they stay hidden, but captured in amber, it’s like finding a diamond,” study author Gianpiero Fiorentino ...