There a lot of natural diversity in New Mexico, but some of its most unique flora and fauna are under threat of extinction.

Ever since 1993, when a deadly disease outbreak in the Four Corners first revealed the presence of hantavirus in North ...

Many scientists believe that this mass extinction paved the way for the rise of mammals. The skeleton in this study was collected in New Mexico’s San Juan Basin by study co-author and New Mexico ...

In 2016 the Service designated 13,973 acres of critical habitat in Arizona,New Mexico and Colorado — areas determined to be essential for protected species’ survival and recovery — as required by the ...

It also shows that these arboreal mammals — an extinct family known as mixodectids ... The skeleton was collected in New Mexico’s San Juan Basin by co-author Thomas Williamson, curator of paleontology ...

SILVER CITY, N.M.— Following a decade of advocacy from the Center for Biological Diversity and allies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today added the Peñasco least chipmunk of southeastern New ...