Science news articles about 'last survivor'

(AP) -- The last survivor among a group of 45 sperm whales that became stranded on a remote Australian sandbar died Sunday, ending a long and disappointing rescue effort.

Elvis, one of the last survivors of an endangered species of thick-billed parrots, is undergoing radiation at a Texas hospital to cure a malignant melanoma on his beak.

A Canadian search-and-rescue dog that helped recover the last survivor from the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11th, 2001 is set to be cloned after winning a contest to be ...

... Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to the island of Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race – accidentally saved from extinction by the ...

James Symington this week received five puppies, the clones of his late rescue dog, Trakr, who located the last survivor in the rubble following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York.