EditorialAlyssa Whitbread, a researcher, attaches an orange, numbered tag to a Chittenango ovate amber snail during a survey at Chittenango Falls State Park, in Cazenovia, in central New York, Aug. 25, 2022. (Jessica Suarez/The New York Times)
EditorialBridgett vonHoldt, an evolutionary biologist at Princeton University, in Galveston, Texas, Aug. 17, 2021. (Tristan Spinski/The New York Times)
EditorialThis collage of images (not to exact scale) from the Smithsonian archives shows six of the species included in a proposal to declare 22 animals and one plant extinct and remove them from the endangered species list. (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History via The New York Times)